The Horizon Report is “a five year qualitative research effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within learning-focused organizations.” The six technology tools for the future are: Grassroots Video Collaboration Webs Mobile Broadband Data Mashups Collective Intelligence Social Operating Systems Read [...]
I copied Lance Rougeux’s post to the National Blog. Discovery Education’s Young Scientist Challenge has officially launched and this year’s theme is “The Science of Space.” In addition to being to being the premier national science competition for students in grades 5 through 8, this year’s challenge is also open to Discovery Educators. Any Discovery [...]
Since we ‘moved’ this week’s Wednesday Workshop to Tuesday, we’re gonna ‘play a little’ and ‘win a lot’! That’s right folks!!! I know that some of you were discussing ‘camping’ as a means to earn money in SL. Well, we’ve got an offer you simply can’t refuse — come out and play a trivia game [...]
I know, I know…we normally do workshops on Wednesdays, but we are an EXTREMELY accomodating group and if one of our members is willing to do a workshop, then heck, we’ll do it whenever! So this Tuesday, we’re thrilled to be able to offer a workshop entitled, ‘Professional Learning Communities in Second Life…REALLY?’ by our [...]
Recently, I took a look back at my notes from Dan Pink’s A Whole New Mind & instantly honed in on his thoughts about Storytelling: “The Conceptual Age can remind us what has always been true but rarely been acted upon- we must listen to each other’s stories and that we are each the authors [...]
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