Category: web2.0

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The Web is Us/ing Us

My apologies for the long delay between blog posts… things have been a bit upside down in my world lately as I deal with a little more change than I can comfortably get my head around.

Speaking of change, I can always rely on Karl Fisch’s blog to link me up with amazing resources that make it just so obvious why the world is changing and why our schools must start to embrace that change. The more I see of the schools I have worked in, the more I worry about just how much we don’t “get it”, and how dangerously irrelevant we are becoming to the digital generation.

This video in particular just gave me goosebumps when I saw it…

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Web 2.0 Critical Mass

It seems to me that when the tools of Web 2.0 start to reach a point where they can offer a viable option for the many tasks we do every day, that we can start to think in terms of reaching critical mass.

I find it compelling to see the huge number of Web 2.0 apps listed over at http://www.go2web20.net/

Perhaps critical mass is not far off?

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Talent Night?

Yes, the school I teach at has a talent night each semester, and somehow or other a group of teachers at school put a little group together to play a couple of songs.  While I can’t truly claim to have any great musical talent, I can wield a bass guitar well enough to hold the rhythm section together, especially with a great drummer like Charlie.  The rest of the band was Rob, Darrell, Alanna and Kevin, all wonderfully dedicated and talented teachers who don’t mind getting up and showing their wild side in front of the kids.  The kids seem to really enjoy seeing their teachers get up and “give it a go”, and it’s that spirit that make schools such wonderfully human  places…

So for anyone brave enough to take a peek, here is a YouTube video of two songs we performed on the night… the sound quality isn’t great and the camera work is a bit shaky, but it just goes to show what can be done when a kid in the crowd just happens to capture something like this on his cellphone, and then it’s up on YouTube within a few hours.

It was, I must admit, a lot of fun.  🙂