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 [...]

Be all that you can be

My blog is currently somewhat of a hodgepodge regarding educational issues. I share my experiences in the classroom, my questions as a pre-service teacher, and opinions on other educational issues.
I am a preservice teacher at a small, public university. I am currently placed in a practicum with first graders (ages [...]

APWH Wiki

APWH - This wiki served as the center for two major projects for Dan McDowell’s Advanced Placement World History classes. The first project had students collaborating to review for the AP exam. The Holocaust Wiki Project was the second undertaking by the students. For this project the students created a branching simulation based upon [...]

Thank you all for your patience. This years nominations have poured in from edubloggers worldwide – and the results, as I’m sure you will agree, are pretty outstanding. My condolences to the many, many high quality nominations who didn’t make this years finals: there were plenty of worthy contenders who would have been equally at [...]

Only a week left to make sure that your favourite blogs, bloggers and projects are nominated for the third international Edublog Awards!
Please do help spread the word – huge thanks to everyone who has posted about them so far. Nominations have been flooding in – again – many thanks for taking the time to make [...]

Many countries celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th - tomorrow.
This year, we’d like to encourage the whole edublogging community to celebrate the women edubloggers in their lives - friends, mothers, sisters, daughters, online colleagues and co-workers. Please join in the party on this special day with at least one post about women who edublog. [...]

Well, the awards were fantastic this year and it’s great to see so many people talking about them. What makes the Eddies so special is that they are so firmly anchored in the edublogging community. So, if you have some good ideas about how the awards could be improved, make sure you [...]

If you weren’t able to join us earlier you can now enjoy the party over at EdTechTalk. You can also check out the vote stats. Dave Cormier has also posted his list of the top ten news events of the edublogging year - his top picks which ran (pretty contentiously) through the awards announcements. Check [...]