Posts Tagged as ‘Inspiration’

June 23, 2009

Summer Inspiration: Connectivism

Connectivism video shows how networked students learn. Can it work for grammar?

June 3, 2009

Interface with the Future

Interactive Whiteboards have me thinking about the interfaces we use to connect to our computers. There are lots of new ways on the horizon, many of which will please kinesthetic learners.

March 31, 2009

Spring Inspiration

A couple of videos (embedded) to inspire course planning for Spring Quarter. How does new technology change how learning occurs?

March 26, 2009

Top 5 Subscriptions for Edupunks

The top 5 magazines I recommend for other edupunks. Why post this list? Because I spent the last two days pulling the engine out of my ‘55 Packard. I’m learning by doing, which is what I ask my students to do.

March 5, 2009

Edupunks alive and well

Give me my Macbook and I can teach English to anyone, anywhere and anytime. I’m an edupunk.

August 22, 2008

Graph Jam: PowerPoint gone awry

This website makes me laugh out loud. It’s a collection of user-generated, MS Office-style graphs on completely trivial topics. It’s a little like a site devoted entirely to info graphics from the Onion with shades of The Daily Show and Office Space thrown in. How can you go wrong with that winning [...]

July 30, 2008

TED Talks

Lorrie and Matt over in the Knowlton School of Architecture introduced TED Talks to me and they’re a great way to spend a few minutes at lunchtime. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. Basically, a bunch of cutting edge people get together periodically to share what they’ve come up with. Great stuff. [...]