If you are looking for some summer fun, consider CLMOOC, a highly flexible online collaboration of educators exploring Connected Learning and maker education. If you’ve heard about maker ed but aren’t quite sure what it is, this is a great
Passion-driven learning
I am very excited to be convening the Passion-Driven Learning strand of the K12 Online Conference this year. This is an approach I believe deeply in. We have an all-star line up covering vital topics such as genius hour, connected
It's Connected Educator Month!
This month of October, many educators around the world will be celebrating Connected Educator Month. This is a month full of activities to establish or deepen our online connections with others. Many of us have found that being “connected” has
Kids Maker Day 2014
This year’s kids maker day is over, and it was a great success. The planned program is shown here. When we hold this annual local event, we never know how many kids will come or what ages they will be.
K12 Online Conference 2014
I’ve written before about how valuable I think the K12 Online Conference is. For those unfamiliar, it’s a FREE, open, online conference open to ANYONE organized by educators for educators around the world interested in integrating emerging technologies into classroom practice. Well, this
Make with Me: Remixing as Recycling
[cross-posted from iAnthology] Welcome to the second iAnthology “Make with Me.” Again, these “make” projects are super flexible, so please feel free to diverge from the suggestions in any way you like. This month we’re going to take some household
Make with Me: Food!
Over at the NWP’s iAnthology site, we’re starting a monthly “make with me” project. For a variety of reasons, this site is restricted to members only (feel free to join!) so I am going to cross-post the “makes” here as
Make/Hack/Play Together
I am facilitating a new 3-week mini-course starting on Nov. 4 called Make/Hack/Play Together. It’s free and should be a lot of fun. You can sign up here.
K12 Online – Free, open PD
The K12 Online conference provides high quality, free, open PD, and it all starts on Oct. 14. Mark your calendars, and think about incorporating this into your professional learning plans.
Kids' Maker Day
Inspired by the #maker movement, #clmooc, and others, I put together a local kids’ maker day this weekend. This was a part of our local Heritage Days event, for which I’ve been helping coordinate a kids’ activity day for a