Organic Learning

I’ve finally published Part 2 of my interview with Howard Johnston, a literacy coach at Corona Ave. Elementary School. He shares how he uses collaboration not only among his teachers, but how he is making connections with the neighboring primary center and middle school. His ideas for using technology to make connections are great. I [...]

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Will Richarson recently posted a compelling example of how to use RSS in the classroom in his thoughtful Pageflakes example of the crisis in Darfur. Pageflakesis a tool for pulling RSS feeds from many different sources into one place. Read how Will pulled al the feeds together in his blog post entitled, “Using Pageflakes as [...]

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I came across this video that explains Creative Commons so well, I had to link to it. I’ve seen other videos from the site, but the Wanna Work Together? video is the best yet I’ve seen for teachers and students who want to work collaboratively. Great ideas for on guidelines for our upcoming “Our Heroes” [...]

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I really like my new Intel mac. One of the first things I did when I got it was to install Parallels, so I could run Windows when I needed it. This evening, I was so glad to be able to use it. I was reading Will Richardson’s post, 2020 Vision, about Karl Fisch’s new [...]

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Last week, I took an Intro to Photoshop class offerered by LACOE in Downey, CA. The instructor was John Chambers. This was an excellent class to learn about beginning Photoshop. Not only is the instructor outstanding in a face to face environment, he also has all of his presentation online, along with podcasts and videocasts [...]

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