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Reflection on:
“iPods- iSpeak- iSing- iListen- iLearn”
By Silvia Tolisano
I first listened to this podcast/presentation weeks ago, and never got around to reflecting on it. So, I fired it up today, listened to it again, got excited again, and fired up the Blog.
There are so many great ideas in this podcast about the reason for Podcasting! First, […]

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Reflection on:
Who’s Teaching Who? Are We Ready? by Chris Kaminski
I really appreciate hearing from the students, and the ones presenting in Kaminski’s film are incredibly articulate. In fact, just listening to the audio, one probably would think that these aren’t students at all. Which would probably expose some of the age biases that exist… but […]

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Photo by: Caitlinator
I’ve been thinking about a “conference metaphor” lately: the conference serves as being a sort of “watering hole”, where we go to refuel as teachers, sidle up to those that are of the same species as us (zebras and zebras, let’s say), and those that bring different perspectives (uh… lions and hyenas?). With […]

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I listened to Bud Hunt’s “Journey through the Week as I Journey Up (or Down) the Road” Keynote today. I appreciated how it sounded like his regular podcasts (i.e., car sounds, etc) and it again made me redefine the word “keynote”.
Several things he said stuck with me. One was how we must first learn the […]

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(Note: I will be posting reflections on the k12Online Conference in order to continue the conversation, and also to post for assignments connected to the k12Online Course Univ. Credits. The first assignment involves a reflection on David Warlick’s keynote, “Derailing Education: Taking Sidetrips for Learning”).
David Warlick’s keynote really hit home with me: the side conversations […]

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