April 2009
April 30, 2009
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if you think caffeine should be available in intravenous form.
44 Tools for the PR Consultant's Toolbox
Sometimes as an administrator for the cyber school I feel like a PR type guy...this list is very cool
44 Tools for the PR Consultant's Toolbox | soloprpro.com
Double Vision: Parsing Images That Trick Our Brain
Very cool illusion
Double Vision: Parsing Images That Trick Our Brain
Twitter talks
Twitter
Elearning to me means ________________________. Fill in the blank. TADO twitter question.
Answers
- Innovation, change, options, and possibilities.
- freedom to learn in an environment condusive to my learning style
- Opportunity
- Elearning to me means curiosity, flexibility and engagement with community of learners.
- "a global opportunity to secure a seat for today's learner in THEIR generation's un-classroom."
- Authentic tasks engaging my students with a real worldwide audience, not just their teacher.
Would people agree that elearning has reached a pandemic level 5 in the education field...it has shown up in at least three countries????
Answer
- Unfortunately, not spreading fast enough.
- Borderline level six! :)
Cyber Parent
Twitter Follower comment...:)
Hi Darren from a Twitter follower!
LOVE your site - just visited for the first time today.
I wanted to let you know that I'll be sharing a link to it and the learning curve video with a group of faculty here engaged in a workshop series on Teaching Online. Also plan to save link to you on our conference support wiki. Many thanks for sharing your work on Twitter! Otherwise, I would not have found you!! (Creates an opportunity to chat with them a bit about growing their own PLN!).
Thanks again and keep up the great work - and tweets about it!
VIRTUAL KEYBOARD - PIANO
Now this is cool...and can be used on a smart board
ePals Global Community
The virtual version of pen pals...connect your classroom now.
April 29, 2009
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if you laugh uncontrollably when people refer to the staff room as the 'lounge.'
Online Teacher Learning Curve
April 28, 2009
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if when out in public, you feel the urge to snap your fingers at children you do not know and correct their behavior.
WizMouse | Peripherals Download | PC World
WizMouse is a tiny freeware utility that has a single, simple, function--if you hover your mouse over an inactive window, and use the mouse scroll wheel, it will scroll that window while keeping it inactive. This can be a boon for anyone copying text manually from an inactive window to an active one, or who needs to see data in one window (perhaps one partially obscured) while reading or working in another. It even scrolls applications that don't offer mousewheel support by converting the wheel to clicks on the scroll bars. In other words, if you spin the wheel down, WizMouse will virtually click the "down arrow" for you.
WizMouse has a very simple interface. Most of the time, it sits in your system tray as an icon; if you click on it, you get a small dialog with a handful of basic options. I found the default settings to be perfect.
If this sounds at all useful to you, WizMouse is free.
WizMouse | Peripherals Download | PC World
SCCS Class Size
Science and Technology of WWII
This website design is awesome..check it out.
Science and Technology of WWII
Comments made in the year 1955!
That was 54 years ago!
'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00.
'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1, 000.00 will only buy a used one.
'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.
'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter
'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.
'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.
'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.
'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .
'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.
'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.
'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.
'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.
'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.
'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.
'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.
'There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.
'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'
'If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'
Computers today
Top 100 Learning Tools for 2008
Interactive Virtual Chemistry Laboratory
Here's your chance to mix chemicals without wearing safety goggles. You won't spill any acid on the spectrometer in this lab. Choose solutions from the vast database and mix 'em together till the cloned cows come home. Marvel as the chemical solutions react in real time.
April 27, 2009
Medical terms explained
Artery......................... The study of paintings
Bacteria....................... Back door to cafeteria
Barium........................ What doctors do when patients die
Benign........................ What you be, after you be eight
Caesarean Section........ A neighborhood in Rome
Cat scan........................ Searching for Kitty
Cauterize...................... Made eye contact with her
Colic.......................... A sheep dog
Coma........................... A punctuation mark
Dilate......................... To live long
Enema..........................Not a friend
Fester......................... Quicker than someone else
Fibula......................... A small lie
Impotent.......................Distinguished, well known
Labor Pain................... Getting hurt at work
Medical Staff................. A Doctor's cane
Morbid......................... A higher offer
Nitrates....................... Cheaper than day rates
Node........................... I knew it
Outpatient..................... A person who has fainted
Pelvis................. ....... Second cousin to Elvis
Post Operative............ A letter carrier
Recovery Room.......... Place to do upholstery
Rectum......................... Nearly killed him
Secretion...................... Hiding something
Seizure........................ Roman emperor
Tablet......................... A small table
Terminal Illness............ Getting sick at the airport
Tumor........................ One plus one more
Urine.......................... Opposite of you're out
CPT Award Winning Course
Virtual High School Meanderings
Michael Barbour has been a big supporter of the SCCS. Through his blog and personal support and organization he does a great job of showcasing what the cyber school does.
Virtual High School Meanderings
Dig a hole through the Earth
Let's suppose, just for sake of argument that you had a drill capable of plowing below where you are standing right now and grinding its way straight through the middle of the planet to the other side. Where would you end up?
Games just for Kindergartners!
These games have been selected just for kindergartners or other little fingers. Enjoy!
Games just for Kindergartners! - Wacona Elementary School
Stopping bullying by teachers and other school staff
After screening responses, his research (done in the mid- 1990s) found that 11-12% of students reported bullying by peers, while 1.5-2% reported bullying by teachers, with the numbers reporting teacher bullying increasing as students got older. Interestingly, he did not find a correlation between any one young person being bullied by a teacher and that same young person being bullied by a peer- so his research suggests that teacher bullying does not set up students to then be bullied by their peers.
Stopping bullying by teachers and other school staff
It works
How To Make E Learning Work
April 26, 2009
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if you believe, 'shallow gene pool' should have its own box on a report card.
Delete button
GSCS Blogs
EduTools Homepage
WCET's EduTools provides independent reviews, side-by-side comparisons, and consulting services to assist decision-making in the e-learning community
Ten Commandments of eLearning Design
Cath Ellis has a great post outlining her Ten Commandments of eLearning. These basic principles, if adhered to, can make a huge difference in whether or not a project will be successful. These principles apply whether you are designing an eLearning course or introducing a new tool for your learners (ex. a blog, wiki, discussion board, etc.).
Ten Commandments of eLearning Design « eLearning Weekly
Farmer in the DELL
My moto for busy days...
Do not walk ahead of me for I may not follow. Do not walk behind me for I may not lead. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me alone.
Angela Maiers Educational Services: Classroom Habitudes in Action
ust as I was getting ready to post a Classroom Habitudes conversation that I had the pleasure of having with students this past week, I received this e-mail from a teacher:
Angela Maiers Educational Services: Classroom Habitudes in Action
How To Make E Learning Work
Jane Hart has created a great slideshow.
The session is How to make e-learning work. Here are the slides I am using. I hope I can keep it to 25 minutes; I have a lot to say!
Stykz - The first multi-platform stick figure animation program
Way cool...
Stykz - The first multi-platform stick figure animation program
April 25, 2009
Academic Integrity
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if you can tell it's a full moon or if it going to rain, snow, hail.. ..anything!!! Without ever looking outside.
Delete son
Cyber School Promo 2007
April 24, 2009
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if it is difficult to name your own child because there's no name you can come up with that doesn't bring high blood pressure as it is uttered.
Feeling lucky
Error Free
Staff Development
Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.
One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time
Welcome to Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories. New projects are posted every Wednesday.
Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories
Use Skype with Students
So, I have been using Skype to stay connected to the folks back home, as well as to connect to the people I'm working with in India. Though my cell phone's functionality has been terrible, Skype has been nearly flawless.
Use Skype with Students | Edutopia
April 23, 2009
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if you want to slap the next person who says, 'Must be nice to work 8 to 3:30 and have summers off.
M.J. talks about course design
31 Days To A Better Blog - Day 15 « Virtual High School Meanderings
And when I look at this list, I think that Darren Cannell and I do 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, and 10 already. I also think that we do 7 some of the time. One that we don't do at this stage, but I would be interested in doing at some point in the future is "8. You can guest post for each other." We also don't do 1, but I'm not sure that either of us need that at this stage - but you never know what will happen in the future.
So Darren Cannell, if you're reading this and I suspect you are, I would love to have your write a guest blog entry (or several guest blog entries as the spirit moves you).
If you have a topic you would like me to write about...I am there...I read your blog daily and it is great to see someone who is so involved in the American Education System still keeping his Canadian roots...love your blog.
We will never give feedback on posts prior to pressing publishing, I think that is more for the newbie bloggers who are still a little concerned about what they post.
I have vented via Skype and do appreciate your expertise in the K-12 area.
I think if and when I finish this PHD I will be looking to collaborate a lot more..but what we have done up until now has been way cool.
We have very similar taste when it comes to identifying what we think our viewers wish to see.
I have posted many of his idea and postings but more than that, reading the blog gives me idea and helps me decide where to go on any given day...
We have the same type of blog viewers for sure.
I do not know of another blog which mirrors my views, my viewer type or my interests as
Virtual High School Meandering
I am not really thrilled with his name for his blog, because he does not meander, he has focus.
Thanks for another post
31 Days To A Better Blog - Day 15 « Virtual High School Meanderings
Rules in an Online Course
With the onset of the online education environment and online courses a new buzzword has evolved called, netiquette. Simply defined, it means etiquette on the Internet (or net). In an online course you will have your communication skills tested! You will be speaking through writing both to fellow students and instructors, so it is imperative to communicate well and professionally.
Top Five Netiquette Rules in an Online Course for Success!
1 in 4 grade schools going year-round
1 in 4 grade schools going year-round
CPS | Some parents say schedule disrupts family, but backers say students learn more
1 in 4 grade schools going year-round :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Education
Writing a book.
Career Education as Humanization
April 22, 2009
Quote of the day
YOU might be a school employee if you believe the playground should be equipped with a Ritalin salt lick.
Dave talks about Mathematics
Compression
The Marginal Teacher
Keyboarding skills page
Many good keyboarding courses, games and skills...check it out.
Let the Kids Game
Might be a tad bias but still a good read.
Sony Online Entertainment - Let the Kids Game
A quote for the day
"The elegant perfect design called a tree.....It makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distils water, solar energy is its fuel, it makes complex sugar and food, micro climates, changes colors with the seasons and self replicates.....Why don't we knock that down and write on it."
Happy Earth Day
The Saskatoon Catholic Cyber School office has gone completely paperless and we would like to challenge everyone to try something new.
We are starting an email campaign at SCCS to partner with as many schools, organizations and individuals as we can around the world, to add the following two "green" lines to their email signature:
Green Email Signature Initiative
April 21, 2009
Magical Jelly Bean Software
The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping.
Magical Jelly Bean Software - Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder v2.0.1
FIVE QUESTIONS...For George Siemens
I wouldn't use the term broken to describe the education system. I would say, instead, that our education system is mismatched to the needs of today's society. Caught your interest...read more
Actual Analogies and Metaphors- High School Style
Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year's winners.
1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it.
4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree.
8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine.
9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.
10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.
11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze.
13. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
14. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.
15. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
16. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River.
17. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut.
18. Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
19. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.
20. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
21. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
22. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
23. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.
24. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.
Jeff shares
Free bytes
Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool - Exemplary Courses
We are very proud of our Exemplary Courses Winner Reg Nakoneshny.
Saskatoon Catholic Cyberschool - Exemplary Courses - Confluence
Quote of the day
"The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you." ~John E. Southard
freetypinggames.net
A whole group of free typing games...way cool
One page guides
Many different one page documents explaining social networking tools, google and more..check it out.
Tim Davies |One Page Guides to many techie type things
25 Signs That Computers and the Internet Rule Your Life
Do you consider the Internet a basic utility? Do you have friends who know you better by your username than your real name? If somebody told you to "google it," would you know what he wants you to do? Does your computer rule your life? Here are 25 signs that it does.
1.) You can't remember the last time you wrote an entire paragraph using a pen and paper.
2.)You consider Internet a basic utility.
3.) Between your Internet and your TV, you would rather lose your TV.
4.) Between your Internet and your phoneline, you would rather lose your phoneline.
5.) The Internet IS your phoneline.
6.) You carry a flash drive in your purse or pocket.
7.) You carry a laptop with you wherever you go-or you wish you could.
8.) You have a callous on your right wrist, where you rest your hand when you use your mouse.
9.) Your "diary" is not protected with a lock and key, but with a username and password - and it is open to be read by anybody in the world.
10.) You've joined an online forum and regularly post messages on it.
11.) You are - or have been - a member of a Yahoo group.
12.) You've watched 1,500 orange-clad prisoners dancing "Thriller" on YouTube.
13.) You know the meaning of the word "google" - and if you don't, you simply Google it.
14.) When you hear the word "spam," you don't think of food.
15.) You've bought and sold things on eBay.
16.) You've had an online love affair.
17.) Half your friends only know you by your username.
18.) The other half know your real name AND your username.
19.) You've mastered computing the time in several different time zones because of all those online meetings you schedule with your Internet friends.
20.) You no longer buy greeting cards; you get them free online and send them through email.
21.) You no longer buy newspapers; your morning news is regularly sent to your inbox.
22.) You no longer buy calendars; you use the one in your email reader or taskbar.
23.) If your wall clock suddenly disappeared, you wouldn't miss it very much either.
24.) You don't keep pictures of your kids in your wallet, but you set them as your wallpaper and screen saver.
25.) You need a computer to view your children's photos.
Disclaimer: This list is for entertainment purposes only. If you want a real assessment on whether or not you are addicted to the Internet, please go to netaddiction.com
April 20, 2009
Take Your Faculty SpeedGeeking!
I would like to know more about this...it seems like a cool idea.
Virtual Field Trips | SimpleK12
A virtual field trip takes students on a tour of a location using a series of web sites that have been linked together, creating a guided experience.
Since they do not require special software, they can be accessed from a classroom or home computer. Virtual field trips can enhance the content of a lesson by providing an activity that extends students' experiences with a topic by taking them outside of the classroom and into a different environment.
Virtual Field Trips | SimpleK12
DoppelMe - Free Dynamic Avatars
DoppelMe - Free Dynamic Avatars
Gary shares
Universe crash
FreshBrain
At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects.
Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs.
Why Web 2.0 is Important to Higher Education
Worth a read...
Why Web 2.0 is Important to Higher Education -- Campus Technology
Kids Around the World | Home
Meet the children on this website and listen as they tell you what it is like to be a kid around the world.
The MY HERO Project Homepage
My Hero is a site where students can write about people they view as...heroes. You can register and create a multimedia webpage about your choices, but, even better (at least, in my view), you can go to the Guestbook area and write a short piece that appears immediately (there are automatic filters to screen content, plus it's manually screened later).
Welcome to Math Playground
Practice math while shopping at a virtual mall. Find the exact change, calculate the interest earned at the bank, compare health memberships at the gym and figure out how much to tip your waiter a the Happy Hamburger.
Stop Disasters
Disasters triggered by natural hazards destroy lives and livehoods.
Your role in this game is to plan and construct a safer environment for your population. You must assess the disaster risk and try to limit the damage when natural hazards strike.
SCCS History Request for second secretary 2003
August 26, 2003
Re: Second Secretary for Cyber School.
At present our secretary is only starting to make a dent in the work that has been accumulating over the summer. During the last school year we have entered 1000 + students into the Mat data bank. This takes approximately 10 minutes per student to verify the information.
To put this in perspective:
A normal high school registers between 200-300 new grade nine students. The rest of the students are just returning. The majority of our students are new and even if they only require one course we still need to collect all the information. In other words we are registering 3 to 4 times then most high schools. It starts to explain why Tanya was experiencing carpal tunnel sydrome.
I have noticed that the majority of my day is doing data entry, tracking students, and answering e-mails and the phone. It is my feelings that you are currently paying a large amount of money for me to do secretarial work. I believe communication issues will continue to increase, presently I answer approximately 20-30 e-mails a day...and when answering the phone all day approximately 3-4 messages accumulate on my message manager. If I am not in the office...18-20 messages. This pressure does not allow me to do the things I have been hired to do, such as assisting developers, talking to our division schools, developing policies and the vision. The type of secretary work needed is very specific to the job, such as data entry, WebCT related, answering the phone with answers to the many questions. Support by a second secretary will help to fill the gaps.
The fix, a second full time secretary.
• this will allow me to do administration
• this will allow the developers some support in typing
• this will allow the teachers to teach and not spend their day chasing delinquent students
• this will give a voice to the school
• this will allow us to support the home schools with accurate information when they request it.
• this will allow us never to experience the problems arising from having a secretary request leave.
As the numbers grow, the task of tracking students is becoming unmanageable without the support. Please consider this request, putting it off will only compound the problems. I hate to continue to ask for more but this is a very pressing need. Tanya's request for leave has just pointed out the need for a second secretary. The skills required to do Tanya's position cannot be filled by a temporary secretary. Someone with those skills will be seeking a full time position. If it was possible to hire a second permanent secretary it would be possible to find the quality of person needed. For the short term until Tanya returns we can make due with one secretary but upon her return keeping her replacement would lift some of this pressure. It would mean we are offering a full time permanent position to her replacement making it possible to gain a skill individual.
Please quickly consider this request... I have 400+ requests for courses that I will need to register by September the second and my typing fingers are starting to hurt.
Thank you in Advance
D. Cannell.
Blogs in Education
What is a Blog?
A blog is a personal website that contains content organized like a journal or a diary. Each entry is dated, and the entries are displayed on the web page in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent entry is posted at the top. Readers catch up with blogs by starting at the top and reading down until they encounter material they're already read.
Though blogs are typically thought of as personal journals, there is no limit to what may be covered in a blog. It is common for people to write blogs to describe their work, their hobbies, their pets, social and political issues, or news and current events. And while blogs are typically the work of one individual, blogs combining contributions of several people, 'group blogs', are also popular.
Full Article can be found here:
Quote of the day
Follow your dreams, except for that one where you're naked at work.
April 19, 2009
Lynette shares
Return to sender
Quote of the day
"Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity." -E.F. Schumacher
April 18, 2009
SCCS Internet safety
Dave share
Lost File
April 17, 2009
Course Blog Tutorial
Ken shares
James Baud
Quote of the day
"A teacher that can be replaced by a computer ... should be."
April 16, 2009
SCCS Professional Development
Quote of the day
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn."
Alvin Toffler
Todd shares
Circumstances
How to Create Your Own Online Course: 100 Tools, Guides, and Resources | Best Universities
Perhaps you have a special skill, talent, or knowledge-base that you want to share with others, and maybe you've heard that teaching online courses can make you a little extra money. The resources below will help you discover how to combine both what you have to offer and what you wish to gain by guiding you through creating and establishing an online course. No matter what age of student, subject you want to teach, or size of the class, you will find resources and information to bring your class online.
100 tools guides and resources/
April 15, 2009
Integrating first nations into core french
Quote of the day
"We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning."
Elliott Masie, Masie Center
Sandra shares
Expected
April 14, 2009
Linking it all together.
Quote of the day
"The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be the only sustainable competitive advantage"
Peter Senge, Fifth Discipline
Norm shares
April 13, 2009
Staff Development
Quote of the day
"It's not e-learning or c-learning; it's learning"
Chuck Ferguson, Sun Microsystems
Lisa Shares
Black Hole
April 12, 2009
Weather Project
Quote of the day
"The next big killer application on the internet is going to be education. Education over the internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-mail usage look like a rounding error."
John Chambers
Quote of the day
"There are two fundamental equalizers in life - the Internet and education."
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco Systems
Krista shares
April 11, 2009
Staff meeting
Quote of the day
"The current learning model is insufficient to accommodate the needs and realities of companies competing in the global, knowledge-based economy."
SRI Consulting
Ken shares
Repeat myself
Toys
April 10, 2009
Learning Communities
To the Sky
A story built 140 characters at a time. If you are a twitter users...log on and add your line...add a hashmark "#tothesky" and I will add your line as I get it.
To the sky
It all started in a galaxy far far away, on the third planet from the sun. It was a beautiful blue planet, inviting like the arms of a parent after being away for too long. The beauty, was, however, deceiving. On that planet live a race of beings surrounded by 37 rings of galactic particles like the rings of an atom. It's been said that each ring is portal to a dark side of the galaxy. This beautiful strange race of beings called the 1st portal the Avani Galaxy ring and carried a small, woven brown sack filled with soil out of respect for its powers. They are the descendants of the Belnar clan and are a threatened race. Chancellor Drod is concerned of the forthcoming prophecy. The rings energy is insidiously strong, yet eerily magical. Whether the prophecy intimated apocalypse or utopia was a matter of controversy among the priests. Drod assumed the worst. Legend says that one of the rings can save them, but which one? Caution: the wrong one is doom. Clues are hidden in the others. There have been many throughout the generations who have made claims to hold the key to the rings, but none dared tempt fate knowing that the true holders of the keys often did so unknowingly. Those claiming powers searched for the Palivati, the unaware keepers of the key awaiting destiny. So when Lakmi, the beekeeper's daughter felt the bees' energy failing, she knew someone was searching, and they were approaching. Lakmi was not afraid, the key was safely hidden away in one of the hives. Lakmi was the chosen Pavilati guardian of the powers to unlock the rings secrets. She took this extrordinary task in stride. Being Pavilati was all she has ever known. It was her One True Purpose.
Maggda wake up tired. Another dream. Always the same. Rings, bees & strange key. She learned to ignore them long ago but this time he felt drawn toward the garden. Her neighbour had an orchard and a hive to pollinate it. A good harvest this year. Her thoughts wandered freely this morning and danced from idea to idea humming in the sun. She decided the only way to figure out what she needed to do next was to go the place where it had all started. Under the hive in her garden. She proceeded to place leaves on her eyes as she lay down in her garden underneath, what was sure to be, the answer. As she lay there she started to sleep only to be awakened by the harsh sound of an engine. An unidentifiable ancient automobile came rambling up the drive; a model her mother would've instantly recognized. She missed her. It's been already 10 years since she disappeared. That's when the strange dreams started. Could her mother be somehow involved in. The automobile came to an abrupt stop and a tall, dark and handsome man exited, his dark pentrating eyes roaming in her direction.
Authors
 dcannell |  TJWinger |
 delanotho |
 APfleegor |
 grammasheri |
 tee62 |
 coelacanthro |
 bhs_sanderson |
 AdtGrg |
 montitanner |
 maggda |
 LoranneBrown |
 geoffcain |
 mycreativefling |
 ValPerk |
 dejadru |
 MrsMcMahon |