Thanks to a tweet from Alec I stumbled upon Gary's Social Media Count over at Gary Hayes blog. Interesting.
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Chris Harbeck's class blog hub (innovator par excellence!)
Ryan Maksymchuk's suite of class blogs (more scribing class blogs than you can shake [...]
This is the slidecast from one of three talks I gave on Friday October 9, 2009. I was in Virden Manitoba participating in the NIBBLE Conference for the Fort La Bosse School Division.
More coming soon. Everything will be [...]
... is that there is too much emphasis on content and not enough on skills.
Math explains the world around us — makes it comprehensible — and when it's not comprehensible, when we don't understand something in the world around us, math guides our discovery ... it's' [...]
Image by dkuropatwa via Flickr
The other day I was talking to a teacher who works with EAL (English as an Additional Language) students. I was reminded of a summary of teaching tips I had assembled by scouring through a pile of research articles when [...]
From the archives ... I started writing this post in November of 2007.
A LONG TIME COMING
A while back, Dean and Bud got me thinking. Bud's tweet contains more than a kernel of truth.
Shortly after reading Bud and Dean I was listening to
Cover of Calculus Made Easy
Considering how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.By far the best opening line for [...]
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Welcome to A Maths Dictionary for Kids 2009 by Jenny Eather
I'm publishing this one out of order. It's my blog, so there.
What Came Before
Part 1: Before Meeting the First Class
Three years' [...]
Chris Harbeck and I will be guests tomorrow morning on the Richard Cloutier Reports show at our local radio station, CJOB.
The topic is "What are our kids doing online?" but I can see us talking about adults as well as how some sites [...]
Watch this first:
OK, so this is going to sound weird coming from a math teacher — I'm liable to be run out of the club for saying it — but, in most subjects, does every kid have to learn exactly the same stuff?
Here's' [...]
If one of these images (all cc, I asked) strikes you in [...]
This video has gone viral; over 15 million views to date.
I've had the same comment surface in several, unrelated conversations I've had with colleagues lately. All math teachers. In each case we were discussing some aspect of the curriculum and at one point they invariably say: "Y'know, you just have to memorize that."
Really?
Driving my son and' [...]
I'd like to publish a series of posts transparently sharing' [...]
Here's Part 1 if you missed it.
The first 7 to 10 days of the semester are busy, particularly the first 2 or 3. I ask each student to email me and mention the class they are taking with me and what period it's in. (Each [...]
Copied in it's entirety from Seth Godin's blog this short post will be featured prominently in the next conversation I have with my students around digital ethics.
A friend advertised on Craigslist for a housekeeper.
Three interesting resumes came to the top. She googled each person's name.
The' [...]
Last summer in Boston at the Building Learning Communities conference, chatting over drinks with David Truss and a few other folks, David suggested an idea riffing off of the 365 Days meme on flickr. Now a year is a major commitment for this so we settled [...] 
On Monday two new blogs started up, the AP Calculus AB: Without Bound blog is still going strong.
This is what I did the weekend before the blogs went live:
COURSE TAG
I decided on a course tag. This has become fairly routine now. I've got it down' [...]
So tomorrow I've been invited back to CJOB radio to participate in a panel discussion on literacy. Sort of unusual for a math teacher but then again, maybe not.
In my latest workshop on numeracy I talked about how literacy is about much more than' [...]
The View From The Studio
Richard was a wonderful host and I found myself taken with the entire process of putting together a radio show. He started working on this show months ago when we met over coffee. He than' [...]
Dean, Sheryl, Wes, and I were joined by one of my former students, Mark Rabena, [...]
Sometime in October I went for coffee with a local radio station host, Richard Cloutier from CJOB. That conversation lead to Richard observing me teach a couple of times in the following months and finally to an on air interview scheduled for tomorrow, 2 [...] 
Last night on twitter I tweeted:
That started the exchange below between myself and Gary Stager. Chris Lehmann joined in and we had a lively debate. I've decided to archive it here in response to the various communications I've received about it. Maybe extend the [...]
Why YouTube?
I chose YouTube for three reasons:
(1) That's where the kids go for video.' [...]
When I returned to work after 10 weeks of parental leave I wanted to find a way to measure how well my AP Calculus students had learned and understood what a derivative was. So, the day I returned to class I challenged them to create a [...]
Whenever I drive to or from work I like to listen to CBC radio. On the way home I listen to Margaux Watt who hosts "Up To Speed". So on Friday, after my Extreme (web 2.0) Lesson Plan Makeover workshop I was a little chuffed [...] 
I'm sitting at the 2008 Manitoba Edubloggercon being held at the Princess Street campus of Red River College in downtown Winnipeg.
Eight presentations later things have become a little more organic. People are asking questions and the chat room in Ustream is replying instantly with' [...]
I was listening to the radio in the car tonight on the way home from a parent info night at my kids school and thinking about email. Many people don't regard email as meaningful communication; it's not really connecting because it's so transient. Like online ecards.' [...] Thanks to Andrew Churches for the remarkable amount of time and effort he put into creating this document and sharing it.
The value of Wikipedia is becoming harder and harder to contest. This particular remix of Wikipedia (5500 articles, 20 volume encyclopaedia, 34 000 images, and 20 million words) should be downloaded by school and burned to dvd for every teacher and student to [...] Here it is:
SearchmeView [...]
Darren Draper dropped by, left a nice comment, and included the observation that the place needed a little fractal beauty to spice it up a bit. This is for you Darr!
Photo source: Natural Fractal Mosaic by flickr user dkuropatwa
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It's here! Please share it far and wide: The 2008 K-12 Online Conference marketing flyer! (PDF format) Many thanks to the K12Online08 PR committee!
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In Clay Shirky's recent book, Here Comes Everybody, he closes by saying that there are three "rules" behind the effective use of [...]
Listen to Arthur:
