This year in blogging

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 8,500 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 3 sold-out performances for that many [...]

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2010 in review

Good old WordPress sent me an email today, with my blog stats for the year, which I share below. I was surprised (and pleased) that I blogged on this blog about once a week, in a busy year of teaching and learning. That’s about as much as I can manage I think.  I was totally [...]

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Beginning of a great adventure

Or so said Lou Reed, in his (best) album, New York. But, after seven years of blogging this doesn’t feel like much like a new adventure. Moving this blog from edublogs.org to wordpress.com isn’t an exciting thing to do, or particularly adventurous. It took me about an hour and a half to find a new [...]

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Scott McLeod blogging about leadership

One of the magazines that makes its my way to the giant pile on my desk that I actually look forward to is the American magazine Learning and Leading with Technology, published by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). In the November 2007 issue which just made it to the top of the [...]

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Merry Christmas

Found this sparkling animated shiny thing on Judy O’Connell’s blog Hey Jude. No suprise to find good things there since she just won the Edublogger Award for Best Library or Librarian blog.  Congratulations, and more power to her!

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New edublogs

I spent a bit of time this afternoon browsing through all the nominations for the edublogs awards and discovered some blogs I hadn’t seen before on the way. The ones that prompted me to actually hit the fat orange subscribe button (that’s a big commitment!) were: TalkingVTE – a podcast filled with interviews and recordings [...]

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ActivBoarding Blog

Just came across Graham Wegner’s specialized blog on active whiteboards. I’m not into them as a learning technology, but Graham’s writing is always worth reading, and this blog is great for the details of actual implementation of a new technology in a real school and worth reading for that alone. And, if you are into [...]

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