Category: schooling

26 years ago I dreamed up a college class. I was lucky to be attending a small liberal arts school where independent study was part of the norm, not the exception. Prescott College had 99 students when I started in early 1984.

First, I would like to say that I am inspired by Ted and his 32 posts. Now that I feel like I know him from our numerous G+ Hangouts, I can say that he participates. Participation is key you know.

Ok, I’m in. If nothing else, I’ll be so amped up on chocolate for the next 30 days I know I can do this. All education. All play. All the time. I can do this. This blog has been where

I was a cook for a number of years. Mostly at a burger joint, but for a couple years at a finer restaurant. I learned the importance of timing and of listening. As a line cook I have to have

Yesterday I had three really great conversations with teachers about new tools, threaded discussions, and adoption challenges of these electronic things. One of the conversations was in G+ and it was my colleague, Thatcher, doing a session about Online Communication.

Yesterday I drove to Phoenix, about an hour and a half drive, to spend a couple hours withe the Phoenix CyberSalon. The CyberSalon is a group of teachers who have been meeting monthly for several years. There are some administrators,

Yesterday we had our weekly live event in the chat of a Google Doc. I was in and out of the conversation, but it was great to see all the folks there and how the document ended up looking and

I am open and ready for business when it comes to questions about the basics of blogging. I’ll try to be prompt in response to questions. You can ask them here in the comment or you can ask them in

The first six minutes of the recording go over the Collaborate interface and my math anxiety. There is a short tour of our office here in the Verde Valley in the middle of Arizona. We looked at what makes a

How about we offer a synchronous event on some Fridays? How about we do it this Friday? I’ll be using the new Collaborate (the software formerly known as Elluminate) interface. If you are interested in seeing it, come along for

I just took a look at a couple of the blogs linked to the POT site and I came across a member who just found the class last week. He is Norm, from Rochester, NY. He can be found here. What I

It is day two of this course and I have a couple things going on thus far. In my mentor role I have contacted my mentees who are from all over the world, literally. They have responded and we are