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Cassie and Katie have blogs! - 39 days ago
Please welcome my daughters, new bloggers Cassie and Katie to the blogosphere.Cassie has uploaded some photos of our Xi’an trip to tell you a bit about our recent vacation. Katie started her blog with 3 simple introductory sentences and an updated. Topics: Ann Truss, blogging, Bluehost, Cassie Truss, China, clustermap, connecting online, feedjit, global audience, Katie Truss, learning, networks, student bloggers, student blogging, vacation, WordPress, Xi'an
Caring across the curriculum - 56 days ago
Caring across the curriculumSometimes I get tired of seeing the school day broken into subject-matter based courses. We don’t teach subjects we teach students, and students of all ages engage in a real life that matters across individual fields of.. Topics: caring, compassion, connecting online, curriculum, datruss, David Truss, education, GDP, instructional design, Jen Whiffin, kiva, leadership, learning, Learning Conversations, lessons, loans, making a difference, Math, Miniature Earth, Pedegogy, poverty, Sarah McLachlan, Social Studies, student leadership, world issues, World on Fire, YouTube
Facebook Revisited - 60 days ago
A 2nd year teacher that I keep in touch with sent me an email yesterday: “Hey Dave! How do you feel about adding students as friends on Facebook? I use my Facebook mainly as a communication tool.I don’t put anything up that I wouldn’t. Topics: accountable, connecting online, cyberbullying, Dana Huff, Dana Woods, Danah Boyd, datruss, David Truss, digital ethnography, digital native, Facebook, Facing Facebook, Learning Conversations, MSN, networks, online profile, professional, professional code of conduct, professionalism, profile, social networking, social networks, students, students online, teachers online, technology
Openness and Acceptance, Mr Deng and his Allegories of Windows, Flies and Coloured Cats - 65 days ago
We just completed a vacation in Xi’an, one of China’s oldest cities and the starting point for the silk road. The silk road was the first gateway to and from the Orient, it was the first real global link to the ‘Eastern’ countries. Topics: acceptance, allegory, cats, China, connecting online, cultures, education, filters, flies, internet, leadership, Learning Conversations, metaphor, metephor, Mr. Deng Xiaoping, openness, Pedegogy, schools, silk road, windows
Blogs as Learning Spaces - 76 days ago
Sue Waters, a friend who has always stepped up and helped me out with just about every request I have ever made to my PLN, sent me an email a couple nights ago. In it she said:I’ve been asked by some 4th year preservice students to put together a... Topics: Alan November, Alec Couros, BLC09, blog, blogging, Camtasia, Clarence Fisher, connecting online, education, Food for Thought, learning, Learning Conversations, learning spaces, networks, PLN, PODs, Powerpoint, presentation, reflection, restructuring, screencast, slideshare, student blogging, Sue Waters, technology, TechSmith
























