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Finding Good Questions
via Remote Access by Clarence Fisher on February 27, 2008
My ThinWalls partners in Los Angeles and I spent an hour on MeBeam last night planning another collaborative piece. We used MeBeam instead of Skype and it worked great. But we also learned the value and the difficulty of finding good questions.David Jakes has been pushing us since the beginning of the year to look at the similarities and differences we have been seeing between the students in the...
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OS and Education
via Remote Access by Clarence Fisher on February 29, 2008
I've always worked in a Windows based environment as a teacher. While I made the switch a few years ago to a Mac for use in my classroom, the machines that my students have always had access to have been Windows based.Then the ten Asus eee pcs showed up in my classroom. 1/2 are Linux Xandros, the standard operating system that comes pre-installed on these machines. The other 1/2 have had...
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Freedom
via Remote Access by Clarence Fisher on March 18, 2008
"I have been laying off the blog lately because I’ve been a little busy. This time I am going to talk about something different. Freedom. You see here in Canada we have lots of freedom and I think that is one of the reasons I am proud to call it my country. Now to me freedom is having the right to do something your own way and being able to go outside and feel that you are safe and free where...
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Five Rules for Tackling Cyber Troubles
via Remote Access by Clarence Fisher on April 14, 2008
There are a lot of scary things going on in the cyber world these days. I've read more articles in the past several weeks then I've seen in a long time:- 9 and 10 year olds posing in chat rooms as pedophiles in order to scare their friends.- The charging of eight teenagers for luring one of their "friends" over to a house so they could beat her and then post the video on YouTube to draw...
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RSS Day
via Remote Access by Clarence Fisher on April 30, 2008
Did you know that today, May 1st is not only the May Day holiday, but is also RSS day?No worries.I didn't either until I picked it up from Lisa Thumann on Twitter.But it is a good point. RSS is one of the major ways that 2.0 has changed the web. Information now is able to come to us instead of us having to sort through and check out dozens of different sites each day. When I first discovered...
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Microsoft Innovative Teacher's Conference
via Remote Access by Clarence Fisher on May 27, 2008
I'm at the first ever Microsoft sponsored Canadian Innovative Teacher's Conference.Strange feeling being an avowed mac guy with Linux machines in myclassroom at a conference with Microsoft signs everywhere, but I gottasay; its pretty cool. We are in downtown Winnipeg at Red River College.A beautiful building designed that is sustainable and green.Took us until lunch time, but we finally...
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