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At 12:46pm on May 10, 2009, Carolyn Stanley said…
Hi, Durff,
Happy Mother's Day.
Thanks for all your wonderful links and words of wisdom
At 3:56am on March 6, 2009, Durff said…
Kim Cofimo's words of wisdom = "Teachers who use technology in the classroom are: flexible, willing to take risks and try new things, not afraid of failing, able to learn from their students, adaptable, and comfortable with the fact that they are not the smartest person in the room. Cultivating this kind of mindset is the first step to understanding how to use technology successfully in the classroom." What kind of teacher are you?
At 3:54am on February 25, 2009, Durff said…
Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution, "...told the House of Lords that children's experiences on social networking sites "are devoid of cohesive narrative and long-term significance. As a consequence, the mid-21st century mind might almost be infantilised, characterised by short attention spans, sensationalism, inability to empathise and a shaky sense of identity". [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-cha...] Listen to the podcast to get the full impact of her point of view. What do you say?
At 12:13pm on February 12, 2009, Jiasheng said…
Hi Durff,

I noticed you're a very active member of Classroom 2.0 in both the forum and in blogging. I'm a student at Georgia Tech and am interested in how you got involved with the site. I'd love to chat with you about it. Let me know if you're interested via my comment wall, thanks!

-Jiasheng He
At 7:28pm on January 31, 2009, Jack said…
Hi Durff. I was wondering if you have students or educator friends who would be interested in participating in a nationwide SAT Vocab Video Contest @ MIT university. You can view contest details at BrainyFlix.com Please let me know. Thanks!
At 2:33am on January 27, 2009, Edwin Wargo said…
Hi Durff - I'm glad you did! I really appreciate sharing all of your experiences and questions. It was nice meeting you.
At 7:33pm on September 8, 2008, Kate Fanelli said…
Yes! I'm a bit of a Gee fan. I've implemented a lot of his principles of learning in my class to try and motivate students to attend class and complete work (I teach in a day treatment center for emotionally impaired students). I'm really interested in how to structure my curriculum delivery to mimic what makes video games so addictive (like moving up levels, personalizing avatars, rewarding small gains, etc.) and I'm having some success. I'd love to talk about Gee's stuff if you're interested.
At 3:57pm on July 29, 2008, Bobby said…
so let me get this straight.....I do a new podcast and it is updated on all those things? I visited that site and can't really tell whats going on. Obviously it updates all of those things at the same time....but do I need to do something? I couldn't figure out the beta code thing, so I requested it, but it said it would take a few days. So, did you hook that up for all your accounts or something. Either way, thanks for the link. I'll look into asap.
At 6:21am on July 29, 2008, Bobby said…
Someone wrote me and told me you put my podcast out on your twitter. Thank you. That was noble of you. Off to school....have a good day.
At 9:01am on July 28, 2008, Bobby said…
That shows you how ignorant I really am:)
Check out the group I created called "The Teacher's Life Podcast Community". You want to be a part of the show?
At least check it out. If not, it's all good....I'm sure you have a great radio voice:)

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On June 13th 1:00pm - 3:00pmSLT at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Southern%20Colorado/163/42/26 the Passionate Redheads Team of the Second Life Relay For Life will holding the first Gala Ball Event. A Fashion Show will follow the ball at 4:00pm - 6:0...
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Do you buy your morning coffee on your way into work? Well STOP IT!! I challenge the network to give up the gourmet coffee once a week. (You know it has to be serious if I say that!) Instead brew the coffee at home or drink the free coffee at work...
June 10
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On June 14th 4:00pmSLT - 9:00pmSLT at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Southern%20Colorado/163/42/26 the Passionate Redheads Team of the Second Life Relay For Life will be holding a Fashion Show followed by a Gala Ball with concurrent Silent Auction. ...
June 8
Durff is attending Steve Hargadon's event
June 2, 2009 from 8pm to 9pm
PBS Teachers and Classroom 2.0 are delighted to have technology integration specialists Bob Sprankle, Alice Barr and Cheryl Oakes as our guests for "Summertime and Your Personal Learning Network," the next webinar in the PBS Teachers LIVE! series....
June 2
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I need YOU to donate to the Relay For Life! https://secure3.convio.net/tacs/site/Donation2?idb=1887102074&df_id=1005221&1005221.donation=form1&FR_ID=19490&PROXY_ID=451857&PROXY_TYPE=22
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A couple days ago I challenged people on Twitter and here I repeat my challenge. In these last days before summer, I challenge you to produce an audio book with students! Then disseminate!! There are numerous tutorials on how to do this and I won...
May 31
Rachel Gendron commented on Durff's blog post 'Last Day's Assignment'
It a very good idea - i guess they have acces to a computer !
May 27
Samran Wiriyaphong commented on Durff's blog post 'Last Day's Assignment'
Love it!! Very creative. ;-)
May 26

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The Gala Masquerade Ball awaits you!

On June 14th 1:00pm - 3:00pmSLT at… Continue

Posted on June 13, 2009 at 11:00am —

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Network Challenge

Do you buy your morning coffee on your way into work? Well STOP IT!!
I challenge the network… Continue

Posted on June 10, 2009 at 6:00am —

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The Passionate Redheads Gala Event


On June 14th 4:00pmSLT - 9:00pmSLT at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Southern%20Colorado/163/42/26 the Passionate Redheads Team of the Second Life Relay For Life will be holding a Fashion Show followed by a Gala Ball with concurrent Silent Auction.
One can view and place bids on the aucti… Continue

Posted on June 8, 2009 at 7:00pm —

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Relay For Life


I need YOU to donate to the Relay For Life! https://secure3.convio.net/tacs/site/Donation2?idb=1887102074&… Continue

Posted on June 1, 2009 at 9:00pm —

Durff

Network Challenge: Audiobook


A couple days ago I challenged people on Twitter and here I repeat my challenge. In these last days before summer, I challenge you to produce an audio book with students! Then disseminate!! There are numerous tutorials on how to do this and I won't repeat that here. Basically, all you need… Continue

Posted on May 31, 2009 at 2:00pm —

Durff

Last Day's Assignment

I am assigning the following for our last day in class. Tell me what you think...
1. Contact another person. Verbal speech will disqualify you.
2. Find out what your contacted person had for breakfast today.
3. Show their answer to me in order to get your points.
4. Post their name/pseudo, location, relation to you, & how you contacted them on your blog.
1 point = someone in this room
2 points = someone in this school
3 points = someone in Maryland
4 points = someone in another state
5 point… Continue

Posted on May 26, 2009 at 3:49pm — 2 Comments

Durff

Visit the Passionate Redhead Team Store!


Please visit The Passionate Redheads Team Store located HERE and while you shop or window gaze at the store donate to the pink kiosk. This benefits the Relay for Life of the American Cancer Society. Just right click on… Continue

Posted on May 22, 2009 at 7:30pm —

Durff

DEN in SL Event!!

Make plans to attend,"Searching Google in a Snap" by our own Lisa Thumann at the DEN in SL at 5pmSLT(8pmEDT) at http://snurl.com/gzmuw Sign up for a google account prior to the workshop. Lisa is a Senior Specialist in Technology Education in New Jersey. She is a Google Certified Teacher who will be talking about

* Search Features
* Web Search
* Insights for Search
* Language Tools
* Book Search
* Scholar Search
* News Search
* Blog Search
* Google Alerts
* Custom Search Engines

So put on your… Continue

Posted on April 29, 2009 at 4:23pm —

Durff

Be Heard on Earth Day 2009!



Earthcast is a 24 hour broadcast held on April 22, 2009. It begins on April 22, 2009 at 00:00:00 GMT, which is 8:00pm Tuesday in my time zone, and runs until 23:00:00GMT or 7:00pm Wednes… Continue

Posted on April 19, 2009 at 5:14pm —

Durff

Earthcast 09 - What Is It?

After a successful 24 Hour Webcastathon on Earth Day 2008, the Earthbridges community will be back for a second 24 hour live webcastahon on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009. We're looking for interested experts in the field, K20 students/teachers, or anyone with an interest in the environment to help out with this 24 hour live broadcast on the Internet.

Last year this promo was produced that explains what Earthcast is:


This year we are still looking for participan… Continue

Posted on March 8, 2009 at 1:31pm —

Durff

Parents on Facebook

A class entitled, "Parents on Facebook: Connecting with parents using Facebook & What does it mean to be a digital parent?" will be offered on Monday, February 23, 2009 at 8:00pm at https://sas.elluminate.com/site/external/launch/meeting.jnlp?sid=2008350%3DM.612F85D6F8C95E7398CA7C70EEFFB2 A post explaining how to participate is located at http://edtechtalk.com/node/3633 Please share this information with your parents, family, and friends. This informational session is being offered by Lorna… Continue

Posted on February 19, 2009 at 7:39pm — 1 Comment

Durff

Barry Schwartz at TED


Are you celebrating moral exemplars with your learners?

… Continue

Posted on February 16, 2009 at 4:30pm —

Durff

Let's Disrupt the Educational Status Quo

"How do we move to a student centric system?" Michael Horn Jan 14, 2008 http://snurl.com/bwfl8 Your ideas? Here's more along these lines : http://www.edutopia.org/student-centric-education-technology and of course the Youtube at… Continue

Posted on February 14, 2009 at 5:30pm —

Durff

Network Challenge

Random Acts of Kindness Week 2008: February 11-17, 2009 http://www.actsofkindness.org/ what will your classes do?
I challenge you to: (ideas from the website)
1. Welcome Winter Gloves
Purchase a pair of winter gloves for someone in your community.
2. Set up a Custodian Appreciation Day and have students clean classrooms for the custodian. Make a banner or card telling your custodian how much he is appreciated.
3. Create a bulletin board where kids write their commitments to specific Random Acts… Continue

Posted on February 7, 2009 at 4:33pm —

Durff

Online Safety

There are three things I teach learners never to put online:

1. their name
2. their photo
3. their location

We, in parentis loci, should not be doing these either. Learners in my rooms choose and use screen names and avatars. We will say the city and town and country of our school for collaborations but not our street address.
Alec Couros' recent post http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/1203 puts this reason in perspective.

Posted on February 7, 2009 at 11:55am —

Durff

Literacy



How do you define literacy? I'm tending to think literacy is the ability
to understand and convey meaning using a medium.
Art, writing, mus… Continue

Posted on December 3, 2008 at 4:14pm — 2 Comments

Durff

Network Challenge


I challenge the network to incorporate the use of one technology tool in their teaching in the next fortnight. Then tell us about it on your blog. For example, you may ask kids to interview the oldest person in their neighborhood using a podcast. This can be done through what many kid… Continue

Posted on November 23, 2008 at 6:37am —

Durff

Who you gonna call?

You, that's who! I need your input answering this question:
What my PLN means to me, how SL helps develop it, helps me to be a 21 century teacher?
Please go to Durff's Blog and leave your comments on that post. That way all the answers are in one place for that day. Thanks so much!

Posted on October 12, 2008 at 6:30am —

Durff

Network Challenge #3


The network is challenged to click on all the adsense advertisements on any three blogs. Generate revenue for some blogger by actually clicking on the ads you never see for the words...
Make sure you use the word "networkchallenge#3" all in one word (without the quotes) in a comment you lea… Continue

Posted on August 4, 2008 at 8:30pm — 1 Comment

Durff

Network Challenge #2

Why not a Twitterchallenge, you ask? This challenge is extended to the entire social network and to those who are online (which one must be to read about the challenge) but not in any particular social network.

I challenge you to navigate to two blogs to which you have never been, read their thoughts, reflect on their posts, & then leave an intelligent comment which you should use the word 'networkchallen… Continue

Posted on July 28, 2008 at 8:55am —

 
 

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