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30Oct/090

Google Wave – Ideas for Teaching & Learning

I began the following Google Wave yesterday as a means of orienting myself to its functionality and features, but more importantly as a way to move past the more mundane and obvious applications for education. As you will see, I invited a number of colleagues and contacts to join, then made the Wave open to the public. If you have a Google Wave account, you’re welcome to join in:

This Wave was embedded with the wavr plugin for WordPress. In beta testing I was able to get my wave ID from the URI, and made the wave public by adding public@a.gwave.com.

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19Oct/090

Skateboarding in Education

Those of you who know me personally probably know I’m into skateboarding. The following 4 minute video highlights some efforts to bring skateboarding into K-12 physical education, and even using skating as a gateway to learning about physics and construction. Au-then-tic!

Watch Video: Skateboarding in Education

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13Oct/090

Updating the CV

I try to update my CV once a year or so, just to keep myself from forgetting things I've done (usually conference presentations) and to lighten the load of updating it the next year. I spent a couple hours on this today as part of an assignment for David Wiley's IPT 682 course. As usual, the task is both satisfying and loathsome.