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Monthly Archives: September 2005

Literally Blogging and the Locus of Meaning

Thursday, September 22, 2005

b5media is a new blog network that recently launched. One blog in the bunch that I’m interested in – Literally Blogging – a pleasant alternative to the edublogs that I mostly read. I enjoy the variety of topics that Jacob Murphy and Erin Harvey, the editors are bringing forward. A post called The Inefficacy of [...]

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The World as Curriculum

Saturday, September 17, 2005

I borrowed the title for this entry from a quote I referenced in my last post. It fits here because I’m mired in a problem evaluating whether to go it alone with something that I have next to no experience with – leaky faucets – or paying for expert help. According to situated learning theory, [...]

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Etienne Wenger

Friday, September 16, 2005

Serendipitous discovery: I was eating lunch at my desk while the kiddos were out in the schoolyard. I was surfing through some blogmarks I’ve got on the work computer when I saw Learning, Technology and Collaboration: A Journey of the Self on Stepen Downes’ site. I’m always interested in ‘journeys of the self’ since I [...]

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Learning and Community

Sunday, September 11, 2005

George Siemens, at the Connectivism Blog wrote a thought-provoking post called Meaning-Making. The questions George is asking about where meaning comes from and how it happens address the magic part of teaching. George is developing a definition of learning – a goal that’s imperative for any of us who envision a future for education that [...]

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Who, Me?

Tuesday, September 6, 2005

Somebody nominated me to be a test item writer for Alaska’s NCLB-mandated science tests. I have the application on my desk. DO THEY REALIZE WHAT THEY DID? Well, I’ve always known the whole NCLB thing is a crock that is being promoted by a bunch of idiots who want to either destroy public education, carry [...]

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…Or by Fourth-Graders

Monday, September 5, 2005

This looks normal to me now.

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