Thursday, January 15th, 2009

How to Teach with Blogs and Wikis

How do you learn best?

Learning is an active, social process. Using Blogs and Wikis for teaching is embracing the  concept that students don’t learn best passively, they learn best from using experiential and constructivist learning.

Above: Kolb’s Learning Cycle
Using blogs and/or wikis for teaching is a great solution for encouraging reflection and collaboration [...]

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

The art of possibility

Here is a reminder for why we teach….. just in case you need to re-visit it for the new year!
Benjamin Zander is the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and on the faculty of the New England Conservatory. “Zander is a prophet of human potential…Watch as he helps unlock the boundless potential of a 15 [...]

Monday, December 8th, 2008

How to get a grip on your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

I have been thinking a lot lately about the people who have influenced me in my learning and those who play a part in my learning now.  A lot of my learning takes place from a natural drive to find out new things.
It has been through the advent of web 2.0 that I have been [...]