CyberCamp 08

If you wanted to return to yesterday’s conversation with Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss, or you missed it the first time around, I’m pleased to report that the recording of the session is now available.  I want to again thank Suzie and Jane for their time, thoughtfulness and investment in our learning, as well as [...]

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Good morning, CyberCampers and guests.  We’ll be meeting with Jane Krauss and Suzie Boss in the Classroom 2.0 Elluminate room (Thanks, Steve Hargadon!) at 10:15MST/9:15PST this morning to discuss their book and our projects.  Any and all are invited to join us.  Jane and Suzie have put together a handy little collection of slides to [...]

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Were there any other titles you considered for the book? If so, what were they?
Who is your intended audience for this book, people new to teaching and/or technology, or those with more experience or both?
What do you see as the most useful part of your book?
What do you plan to write or do next?

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I’m pleased to announce that we’ll be meeting with Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss tomorrow morning at 10:15 MST to discuss their book and project-based learning with technology in general.  Better yet, I’m pleased to invite others to join us for that conversation.
But, CyberCampers, as we all know, a good conversation requires some good planning.  [...]

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Kent made a really good suggestion that we should, as a camp, build an asset map of the tools and ideas and resources that we’re talking about. I thought it might make sense to make a digital one that we could work from and share with each other.  Here it is.  (Help me make it [...]

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Read from our text during the thunderstorm this afternoon. I was afraid to touch anything electrical with the lightning striking all around me.
Good old John Dewey just keeps popping up everywhere. I was thinking about him as I read chapters 1-3 earlier this week. Then yesterday, Bud and I were going on [...]

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Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts.Lao-tzu –The Tao Te Ching 
I think all of us can relate to this quote! I think we also need to keep this quote in mind as we struggle with our projects, family lives, aching heads (So much info, so [...]

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For anyone who wants more info on PLC!

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Another good day at CyberCamp.  This was a valuable day in that we discussed the first three chapters of the Boss & Krauss book, Reinventing Project-Based Learning.  A few things come to mind: that there is a lot of learning going on at CyberCamp, there is a lot of learning to do, and maybe even more [...]

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 From the NYTimes.com
Are Blogs Bad for Us?
Blogging heads on connective writing, the dangers and prevelance of information cocooning and blogs v. newspapers.
These guys must have been in the advanced version of cybercamp.   But it makes me rethink what I want to accomplish this week.   An online media literacy unit for students now seems appropriate.  [...]

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