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Fascinating Article about how to change people's attitudes.
If your organization is working with Open Access Repositor Material -- check out this website where institutions share their policies and register your own. (from Stephen Downes.)
Take a look at the widgets universe created by the Repositories support project -- you can see the widgets that they have and information. Some of these are particularly interesting -- I recommend taking a look if you are a researcher or grant write as some of these look like something you'll like.
Just finding so much funding for "educational innovation" but so little true innovation in education -- looking at this article from the UK -- they are praising universities for seemingly unquantifiable something or other that they've done.
The aims are great, it seems - but also missing is the opportunity to bridge K12 to the business world through programs run by college students like they are doing at U Michigan.
This announcement came in recently:
"The University of Northern Colorado is about to launch the Education Innovation Institute.
University and government officials will detail plans on Sept. 24 for what is being billed as the "leading authority on education policy research and analysis." UNC has been a leader in the field of education since its founding in 1889 as the State Normal School."
I hope that they will blog it, for if they truly want to influence educational innovation, they will share their findings and become part of this amazing grassroots network of educators. Be part of change or be irrelevant.
I'm finding the discussions about research on the Flat Classroom project to be very interesting. We have some researchers who are joining in the project just as observers and if you fit in this category, just join the project and join this group.
Craig Union is sort of the de facto leader of this group and DJ White is also really contributing as well. Join in!
A set of essays on the nature and nobility of teaching. You can download the text of this on this site.
Another must read motivational post for those in leadership from Doug Johnson. I love the part where he says this time of year he needs to wear iron underwear b/c everyone seems to want to take a bite out of his a*%!
Criticism is so tough to deal with, especially when you feel a lone. This is something I've been taking on the chin lately at our school and sometimes it really makes me want to quit. I think it is because as connected as I am with all of these amazing educators, right now in terms of technology, I don't feel very connected with the teachers at our school, largely because my workload barely gives me time to go to the ladies room!
I love this post!
This is an enjoyable interview video w/ George Siemens about connectivism. I love seeing their faces, it makes it more personal
Nice Blog Post from Edwin Wargo about vision and leadership. I particularly like this phrase about school culture:
"No matter how cool the technology tools, culture, I believe, will win the tug-of-war. There still may be a few trailblazers but systemic buy-in is likely to be minimal. I believe culture ensures the sustainability that Michael Fullan talks about."
Jonathan Trenn writes an article on the "fallacy of community" that many of the vendors at NECC should read. Edubloggers / educators/ educational groups of people emerge because we want to. We create a community when we need to and have the passionate desire for a common purpose. However, the word community and social network was so overused at NECC this year as to become a curse word.
Used by people told it was important but who may not understand it themselves. This is a great article and strikes a cord with me.
The International Edublogger Directory is a great project. If you are an edublogger at any level, please go to this page to add your information.
A classmate in our workshop has created a group for researchers who want to research web 2 -- if you want to join a group, Craig has just retired from the Navy and has a LOT of energy!
This is an excellent post about the lack of engagement of North American workers. I think you'd see something similar with North American students. Why the lack of engagement? Boredom? Lack of work ethic? Something is missing?
Who knows, but this article from one of my favorite inspirational speakers, John Foppe, has me thinking. Do we have engagement entropy happening in schools?
Doug Belshaw's ruminations on the edublogosphere and how it is changing. I'm going to be thinking on this one.
Scott McLeod talks about how to rank one's success as a weblog -- talking about comment intensity. I think comments are important, however, comments are often correlated with controversy and the vocality of readership.
As Avinash Kaushik points out, there are many different metrics to measure your blog’s success. Some common metrics include subscribers, page ‘hits,’ and Technorati rank or authority.
Another useful metric might be the average number of comments per blog post, or comment intensity. The table below shows the comment intensity for five blogs: this one, dy/dan, Weblogg-ed, Cool Cat Teacher, and Ewan McIntosh’s edu.blogs.com.
Kristin has done a nice job of talking about her use of diigo -- I'll be adding to this later.
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