Posted in Blogging, Community, Power of Web 2.0, personal on Nov 5th, 2009 5 Comments »
I love ongoing online stories that chart a series of connecting events and people. On September 24, I wrote a blog post called Singing Hearts, in which I highlighted a photo essay created by my three-year-old daughter Kaia and the reaction it elicited from @wmchamberlain’s class in Missouri.
I am happy to report that the story [...]
Posted in Blogging, Changing Teachers, Collective Learning, Community, Distance Learning, Networking, Philosophy, education, recruiting on Sep 30th, 2009 42 Comments »
It has been an interesting week in Doha. The government Supreme Council has decreed that all schools stay closed until October 4th in an effort to curb the spread of Swine Flu. What makes matters more complicated is that this announcement came on the tail of a weeklong holiday for Eid, so I haven’t seen [...]
Posted in Collective Learning, Commenting, Community, personal on Sep 24th, 2009 13 Comments »
I was going to beginning by saying that I have another Twitter Tale for my readers, but really when I look at how the following events played out, I realized that Twitter was but only one of the tools that allowed for a group of eighth graders in Missouri to connect with my three year [...]
Posted in Changing Teachers, Community, NECC09, Networking on Jun 29th, 2009 8 Comments »
Sitting at the blogger café unable to get online. The situation is dripping with irony, but I digress. People I should be connecting with surround me, but I find myself retreating back to where I feel safe. In words.
I have been plagued by a sense of bitterness and apathy since I arrived at NECC, and [...]
Posted in Art, Changing Teachers, Community, Identity, Philosophy, Sharing Info, Video, recruiting on Jun 14th, 2009 34 Comments »
On June 4th, I gave a talk called Life as an Open Book at Qatar Academy for the first ever Tedx event put together by Julie Lindsay.
I spent quite a bit of time planning the talk, but the execution was not exactly what I had in mind. I was plagued by repetition, false starts, and [...]
Posted in Community, Group Brain, Power of Web 2.0 on May 19th, 2009 9 Comments »
The school where I work is currently only a Primary School this year, but like most schools in Qatar, we are rapidly growing. Next year we will expand to offer lower level Secondary classes as well. Seeing that I will be teaching Year 7, 8, and 9 (read Grade 6,7,8 in the American system) English, [...]
Posted in 21st Century Learners, Collective Learning, Community, Sharing Info on Apr 1st, 2009 1 Comment »
Every few weeks, Julie Lindsay gathers a few teachers at Qatar Academy to discuss learning and technology. Most people who read this blog, all two of you, probably already know Julie, but if you don’t she is an excellent member of any learning network, and I suggest you read her blog and follow her on [...]
Posted in Community, Daraja Academy, Networking, RSS, Twitter on Mar 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
The more we begin to use tools like Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites as part of our regular means of conversation, communication, and connection the more creative uses for these tools each of us will find for reaching out and connecting to more and more people. Below is a brief example of something [...]
Posted in Blogging, Community, Twitter on Mar 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
This is why I blog and twitter and facebook and flickr and youtube and all that jazz. I have a deep faith in the power of human beings to get togther and solve the world’s problems through a shared understanding that if we just sit and understand each other, the world is not as complicated [...]
Posted in Art, Community, Identity, Networking on Dec 11th, 2008 5 Comments »
I am officially full. No more room for blog posts, news articles, or youtube videos. No more funny photos or heart breaking stories. No new bands, new sounds, new anything. I don’t want to contribute to the noise anymore. Not even sure why I am typing these words, perhaps to let out some of the [...]
