Posts under ‘2006’

A Duck with a Blog comes from a K-8 Independent School in Northern California, USA, and is the first winner of the Edublog Awards Convenors eduBlog Star Award. Kindergarten and 1st and 2nd Grade students create drawings and theories about the appearance and adventures of a duck and an egg. Charming and heartbreaking in equal [...]

A well deserved congratulations to all this years nominees!
Voting closes midnight GMT Saturday 16 December 2006.
Unbelievably, there are only 4 more voting days for you to show your support for the international Edublog Awards 2006 finalists. So if you haven’t already, please do vote, and make sure you show your support for all the hard [...]

absolutely intercultural!

‘absolutely intercultural!’ is a joint venture of Anne Fox in Denmark and Dr. Laurent Borgmann in Germany who have worked together in several inter-cultural activities and projects.
A new episode is released every second Friday evening, looking at all intercultural aspects of human intercultural communication. For example, we’ll be hearing from students on foreign work [...]

Digital Chalkie

Digital Chalkie is an open group blog for Australian (and beyond) K-12 educators interested in the power of ICTs to enhance educational outcomes. The domain name uses the word ‘chalkie’ as an affectionately defunct Australian term for teachers. The goal is to establish a vibrant hub/magazine/think-tank for teachers to support each other and to [...]

2¢ Worth

The pennies of this blog come from 30 year educator and 25 year education technologist and programmer, David Warlick. Nearly every day sees something new at this blog, written from nearly anyplace on the globe. Warlick uses 2¢ Worth to point to other important postings from other educator and media bloggers and various happenings [...]

Barbara Ganley: Finding Our Way through the Edublogging Labyrinth

I am so surprised and honored to be nominated alongside works and events of such note in this category, all of which have influenced my teaching. That my keynote for the first UK edublogging conference is a finalist pleases me a good deal because it was a [...]

Artichoke

The Artichoke blog is an online scratch pad for my “ignorance” in all matters educational. It is a place to explore differences in opinion and alternative viewpoints to educational policy and practice in New Zealand and elsewhere.The challenge and collaboration in comments from other edubloggers are the best part of “Artichoke”. Their contributions help explore [...]

Henry Jenkins et al: Confronting the challenges of participatory culture (PDF)

This white paper was written as part of a larger grant provided by the John and Catherine MacArthur Foundation in support of what we are calling Project NML (or New Media Literacies). Over the next few years, we will be developing and publicizing a [...]

A Difference

I am the Department Head of Mathematics at Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, a grade 9-12 (students aged 14 years to 18+) high school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A Difference is my personal professional blog where I explore the meaningful and concrete pedagogical applications of the read/write web in my classroom. The first post I [...]