Connected Learning

On News.com.au today there is a story about how parents are spying on their kids internet viewing.

Since when was monitoring and protecting our students or our own children “Spying”?

In reality these parents are doing the absolute correct thing and the only thing which can prevent them inadvertently doing something which may harm them.

I may not let my child walk down to the park on their own and talk to people I don’t know and stay there for as long as they like. I watch and monitor their activity, so why not online?

I will be watching and caring for my children…what about you?

What effect can you achieve if you get 207 people to do absolutely nothing all at once for 5 minutes?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DerK9VJKIpY[/youtube]

How could this impact your pedagogy, both online and F2F?

Chuck Norris’ influence spreads far..

in Google enter the search term:

“find Chuck Norris”

and hit “I’m feeling Lucky”

How 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the TIMEWATCH program “Bloody Omaha”…

Anh outstanding piece of work which graphically demonstrates the power in our hands.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9cpOMYv0[/youtube]

We recently looked at Remember the milk, and here is another to do list engine which integrates nicely with Google calendar and offers lots of features.

Toodledo.com
is an easy to use, web-based to-do list. Keeping track of all your tasks will help you avoid disorganization, stay motivated and be more productive. Check it out.