reflections on evo 08

Time really flies when you are busy and so my reflections on the 08 smielt session is much later than the actual end.
I certainly learned a lot about moderating, as it was my first time doing it, and I would definitely do it again.  The role of moderator isn’t the same as of instructor, so [...]

Flickring away

I’ve been so busy reading other posts that my blog has become a bit neglected.
It’s also Fasnacht here (the equivalent to Carneval in Switzerland) and so I went to town to take some pictures for anyone interested. There is a slideshow you can watch if you click on the mask..
Fasnacht can be found in many [...]

Accountability in teaching with technology

I was just reflecting on Ann’s comment on my last post about using the internet with children and it came ot me that about a year ago there was an incident. A primary school teacher had her kids go to the computer and there were sexually explicit pictures on the screen. The kids went home [...]

Social media = open media

Sarah mentioned on her blog the following:
Social Media is not part of my culture. To me, it only makes sense when I am participating in a closed environment where I know people – like in this class. The start and stop times, and the built-in time and place to get to know each other makes [...]

connecting

I’d like to tell you about one of my co-moderators blogging about evo 2008.
We had only met during the last evo session, and yet a bond has tied us together and shown us many common interests.
Now after only a year, we are friends and working together, and how glad we are to have each [...]