http://cthompson.edublogs.org Thinking about technology and education Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:06:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's official. I am a CCK08 drop-out. Say What? CCK08 is the Massively Open Online Course on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge being taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. When the course was announced in the spring I eagerly signed up. However, as the start date for the course ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/09/24/cck08-dropout/ I've been thinking for awhile that my blog has been looking a little busy. I had left and right sidebars with a lot of widgets. What finally pushed me into action was visiting Jan Smith's blog Re-Siever. It looked so clean and sophisticated, and the content ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/09/18/new-image/ I like using technology, but when it comes to mobile learning I feel like a luddite. Mobile Learning the Future? Photo by AdamLogan Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License This morning I read a post by David Truss where he talks about the future of technology in education: I predict that in about 5 short years almost every Middle ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/09/12/mobile/ This is cross-posted at Tech Pro-D Tools. A week ago I facilitated a session called 'Blogging 101' for teachers in my school district. The session was aimed at teachers new to blogging. By the end of the session I wanted participants to be able to: search for blogs of interest subscribe ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/09/07/reflections-on-blogging-101/ Chris Lehmann wrote an interesting piece last week where asked, amongst other things; How can we change the system so that more teachers are rewarded for not taking the short cuts? Chris' post was inspired by video number 8 in Dan Meyer's summer video posts--which have been excellent. How To Keep The ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/08/19/combatting-teacher-burnout/ I just found out about this resource via Alec Couros' blog Open Thinking & Digital Pedagogy. The University of Nottingham has put together a series of YouTube videos, apparently one for each element on the periodic table, called The Periodic Table of Videos. I just checked out a ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/08/18/periodic-table-of-videos/ I just finished watching Sir Ken Robinson's talk Changing Paradigms at the Royal Society for the encouragement of the Arts (via Will Richardson). Robinson is an engaging speaker and I highly recommend viewing his talk (it runs 55 mins). If you're more pressed for time, he did a ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/07/20/on-changing-paradigms/ "Thank you, thank you very much." 31 Day Comment Challenge Awards On Monday, Michele Martin over at The Bamboo Project Blog announced the winners of the 31 Day Comment Challenge and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that I was a co-winner for the most comments on a wide range of blogs ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/06/26/in-the-words-of-elvis/ Way back in May I was tagged by Louise Maine for the "I believe..." meme started by Barry Bachenheimer.  I've been putting off writing this for quite a while. It's not that I didn't want to write it, it's just that I have a hard time articulating the points that ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/06/23/im-it/ Some BackgroundI started blogging in November of 2007 and I am amazed at how much I've learned and grown as a result of blogging.  My network is expanding all the time; now it's time for me to work on local connections, with the folks in my district. In August I ... http://cthompson.edublogs.org/2008/06/14/blogging-101/