June 2007 Blog Posts (163)

Hey. Some of you may know I'm blogging a bunch, and I'm headed down to the 'Non-Conference" of educational bloggers in Atlanta this coming Saturday. I recently added some posts in my primary blog, scottmerrick.net, about Second Life and realized that it is only appropriate that I keep those two lives separated, however comingled their developments may at times be.

So I've created the "scott merrick in second life" bloggie to keep up…

Hi All!

As many of you are, I'm looking forward to the NECC conference in Atlanta, GA. There seems to have been a flury of interesting posts on the blogsphere recently now that the schools year is wrapping up (more time). It will be interesting to see how some of those conversations continue through NECC and the rest of the summer.

...and in other happy news, my daughter just turned three and had one heck of a cool party with a few of her close…

Dear All,

We are a community of ESL teachers willing to continue updating our knowledge on CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning). The purpose of this yahoo group is to share all the courses, training workshops or any kind of professional development with other ESL Teachers.…

I am a very happy user of moodle as a VLE - my first love was WebCT and then moodle stole my heart. I am now starting to explore different learning theories to better understand how to design effective pedagogical materials for use within the VLE etc. I came across george Siemens connectivism "A learning theory for today's learner". Ref: http://www.connectivism.ca

Here is the conclusion from his…

This looks to be a year of renewal for me. For the last 17 years I have taught various subjects to the MR population. When school started this past year I knew that I needed a change. I no longer felt the excitement that I used to feel. Thus started my year of self questioning. Thoughts went through my head that made me question whether or not I should stay in the field at all. I have some serious concerns about special education. But that will be for another discussion. After considering a…

This morning, before school began, Christine Southard and I decided to try out our new webcam. So Christine sent out an SOS asking for friends to help us play and we got a great response. We spoke first with Ginger, who graciously turned on her camera even though it was early morning in Kansas (You looked fabulous, Ginger). We played around with the camera and had fun. Then David J. checked in from Texas. At this point, after we figured out how to get David into our call, we realized the…