One thing that absolutely SUCKS about NECC is being so far way from my kids. My son however has figured out Skype. I’ve never showed him how it works, he’s obviously seen me use it around the house. I missed his first steps because I was at work, missed the first word, but I’ve caught [...]
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Konrad’s awesome presentation at NECC this morning was made all the better with Judy streaming his slideshow into Jokaydai and Will Richardson helping out with the Ustream.
Konrad is part of the Jokaydia Community in Second Life and a great mentor in Second Classroom, and has a great insight as to the use of community [...]
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Edubloggercon is the pre-conference, unconference held the day before the official NECC event. The day started off with a few hundred people voting live on about 20 different topics that had been proposed by ‘the network’. It worked really simply via a web2.0 site (of course), the most voted topics were split up into [...]
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What a difference a week makes! With an hour to kill before the 26 hour flight back to Sydney. Here we find our staff still working on their projects. Apart from Gavin that is, playing with his DS. With a brand new Ning based PBL project – that includes a podcast as an ‘Entry Document’, [...]
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As I come to the end of the week in Grand Rapids. There are many things that I’ve learned, and even more that I’ve unlearned about ‘what makes a great project based learning’ curriculum and EduTech.
Firstly, in order to learn how to teach teachers about PBL, you have to use the PBL process and tools [...]
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Spending the week at the Napa New Technology Foundation PBL training symposium in Grand Rapids has posed an interesting question around ‘how much Web2.0 is enough?’.
Teachers are learning about developing effective PBL projects, working with 8 schools and staff from all over the US. In doing this I’ve been considering how students move through [...]
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This is a really cool video. Kerry J invited the Second Classroom group to present at an Edna Event. You can visit the Second Classroom building in Jokaydia. Kerry did a great job of organising a tour of the educational spaces for ‘newbies’, and it was great to see so many take the plunge.
What makes [...]
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I’ve started on the professional development with Quest Atlantis. Its a MUVE with a back story, that covers a range of KLA content with a strong ’social commitment’ theme.
It is designed for students 4th to 8th grade, and as a teacher allows a very comprehensive online way of managing students progress. Students are engaged [...]
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Diigo may fast becoming the new black in Social Bookmarking. The PBL Group on Diigo now has over 80 PBL teachers and educators with some fantastic discussions happening in a short period of time
Two of our PBL teachers are now using it to aggregate and focus learning in a cohort of over 150 [...]
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