The content of this mind map is taken directly from Marcy Driscoll’s map, found on p. 384 of Psychology of learning for Instruction (2005).
The point of this post is that I wanted to play around with mindmeister’s map embed function. It’s pretty cool, at first I though that it had chopped off part of my [...]
…technology integration in schools is not easy to achieve, no matter how much evidence we have that it can help learning. It’s also important to integrate technology appropriately, as critics are quick to point out that computers, besides being expensive, can harm young children who sit for hours in front of them instead of being [...]
At the top of this site, you’ll see a tab called BlogRoll. Click it. You will find one of the most important aspects of this site – my community links. These are the blogs of writers that keep me going on a regular basis. Pay them a visit. Now.
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Some of you have been around for the past few weeks as I have been testing out the new site, and here it finally is – the new home of Leading From the Heart!
The major changes are:
I now host the site
I found this fun theme and modified it a tad
I’ve decided to focus my writing, [...]
Hey all,
I have spent the past few months trying out new blog platforms and themes.
I’ve finally decided to host the blog on my own domain and have moved things on over to
http://leadingfromtheheart.org
Please come for a visit and update your feeds – for the last time folks, because we have found a home
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…but good ones. And free. Not asking for much, eh?
So far I have found a number of free text-to-speech readers, but they all sound VERY computer-y and as such are not really helpful for my students. They find them difficult to understand.
I’m looking for free because, well, we’re in a public school and [...]
The more things change, the more things stay the same…no?
I’ve highlighted some juicy morsels
my pedagogic creed
John Dewey’s famous declaration concerning education. First published in The School Journal, Volume LIV, Number 3 (January 16, 1897), pages 77-80.
ARTICLE I–What Education Is
I believe that all education proceeds by the participation of the individual [...]
Montreal Metro Tunnel 1
image by Flowizm on Flickr
Every day 2 of our 9-day cycle at school I take my older group of students out on a travel day. We take public transportation to travel from Chateauguay to Montreal.
Each day 2 we try to go to a new place, and each time I try to incorporate [...]
My tagline:
metamorphosis, no better metaphor for this…
comes from No Compromises, performed by Invincible, a Detroit MC.
I love how the words string together, and I love the idea of positive change for the future it invokes.
mp3 No Compromises originally downloaded from: FREE THE P! Palestine Takes NYC’s East Village by Storm, article by Remi Kanazi, The [...]
I am trying out tried out this great new theme by Michael Oeser.
It’s called WyntonMagazine – here’s a screen shot of the original template:
I liked the magazine layout, however It turned out that I wasn’t happy with the fact that there was no sidebar on the main page, so I searched around some more and [...]
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