CyberCamp 08

I’ll admit it – I’m already suffering some CyberCamp withdrawal.  But that’s okay – as I suspect there’s more on the way from the CyberCampers.  Plenty more, based on what I saw happening in our classroom and here on the blog.
In a sense, today is the REAL first day of CyberCamp – the first day [...]

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Kevin has been a good friend and colleague of mine via the Internet for some time now – and he’s been very kind to spend as much time with us in the comments of the blog as he has.  He’s invited us all to join a weekly feature that he facilitates called “Day in a [...]

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Well, I finished another tutorial, but I feel like everything I am learning this week is just going in one ear and out the other.  I am trying to retain all this info, but my brain is struggling.  I used to think I was fairly smart, but today I was irritated and confused and exhausted.  [...]

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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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It’s been a long and interesting day here at CyberCamp – I feel a little guilty because I threw so much information at folks – but I’m looking forward to seeing if what we’re trying to do (all work on something different, together, transparently) can work.  I believe very strongly that it can.
I’ve already been [...]

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