#ONTSM

There was a conference taking place today, hosted by Pearson, and focused on Social Media use in Education. In the spirit of full disclosure, I need admit that I was invited to this conference, but couldn’t go due to a previous engagement presenting with Aaron Puley on Raising Responsible Digital Citizens at  the Ontario Federation of Home and …

Learning Commons and the Student Managed Digital Portfolio

Met with all of the Literacy Improvement Teachers from the board today to present on blogging. Here’s a brief keynote on why “blogging” is a relevant tool for the classroom: http://public.iwork.com/document/?a=p11584973&d=Commons.key I’m a big fan of WordPress as the publication platform of choice for blogs. I host two pilot WordPress communities on the web: Litcircuits, …