Listen to the Photo Talk Make online learning and instruction exciting by adding voice to your photos in a very simple way. Just upload the photos and record through Talking Photos. What a great way to communicate with others...
Over the past several weeks, I’ve been participating in a fascinating conversation about which works better for supporting cooperative learning, Wikis or NINGs?I checked with my colleagues in the Ning and they’re happy for me...
Monday to Friday, from 7:30am to 3:30pm, Mark Cruthers teaches traditional
high school students face-to-face in Pinion Hills, California. Then, after 4pm, Mark teaches homeschool students – online.
Last year, he and his wife, Debor...
I’m having a provocative dialogue with a LearnHub colleague about what constitutes an online “lesson,” what constitutes a “discussion” or a “debate,” and how the three are different. Certainly th...
Listening to Mark Cruthers’ talk about his experience teaching AP History online to a group of homeschoolers, what comes up for you?(If you haven’t yet heard this interview, go HERE to listen.)The WizIQ free virtual classroom...
Namasthe, LearnHubians!This lesson is an open invitation to Infinite Living by partaking and participating in the Movement of Come-unity-global citizenship (a Community at LearnHub) through Online Presence.’ A frog in the well livi...
“Virtually all learning difficulties that children face are caused by adults’ inability to set up reasonable environments for them. The biggest barrier to improving education for children, with or without computers, is the completely imp...
A Community ( be it online or off-line) without well defind core values is just gossip. A vision without value empowerment is just a fancy. Irrespective of any group SOCIAL INCLUSION is the CORE VALUE which should never be los...
READ THIS!The dawning of the Bad Memory Century will have vast consequences for the social fabric and the international balance of power.David Brooks often irritates me, but this piece in the NY Times today absolutely hits the nail on th...
Some people are just crazy enough to think they can change things. And then do something.Harman Singh, the 30-year old CEO of WiZiQ, is one of those people. Harman believes the most important thing he can do to support education reform a...
Michael Hodosh, aka Dr. Michael,
is a 49-year-old clinical psychologist who is shifting his focus from
face-to-face counseling to counseling online.
He’s making a lot more
money online in a lot less time. And he feels he is able to help ...
If the whole idea of intellectual property and fair use makes your head hurt, join the club.It makes my head hurt, too. I want to get credit for the ideas I contribute to the global conversation and I know my friends want the same. I als...
Like it or not, certain ways of giving learners feedback HELP them learn.Certain other ways HINDER their learning.Will Thalheimer has just made available for free two reports on his extensive research on what works – and what doesn...
FIND, USE, SHARE, and EXPANDIt’s been awhile since Steve Johnson described the FUSE process but I’m noticing that some people haven’t heard the term… or thought as carefully about it as might be useful.It seems to...
If it’s too hard to read the image above, you can use this link to display it larger.”We have it in our power to begin the world over again.” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
Over the course of the last week,...
KindergartenGeneralBecome accustomed to playing with others Have funFollow play without being with the ball (advancing beyond the “swarm”)Only rule: ball out of bounds – ball goes over any of the field’s boundaries (end ...
Slides – including assignments- for the second LIVE session of “Jumpstart Your Online Teaching Career,” held at 1pm PDT, July 9, on WiZiQ. The LAST 3 slides contain the two assignments and an offer for 15 minutes FREE p...