Bud the Teacher

Moving

   It seems like it's time.  Time to move this blog home with all the other tools and sites and whatnot that I've accumulated on this long, strange trip of the last few years.   If you're subscribed through my feedburner feed, you shouldn't notice a change, at least on the subscription side.  If you're not, perhaps you should change your subscription, as you will no longer receive any posts from me.   Then again, maybe you're okay with that.  I'll keep the Typepad space running for a month or two, just in case you're a little behind in your reading.  The good news is that it's so easy to move a blog - all of the last three years of posts and comments and conversation is sitting over on the "new" blog.  Hope to see you there, too.

Here's the feed:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/budtheteacher

See you on the other side. 

Connected

Jennifer Jones tweeted a link to this video this morning, and I think it's a fine example of what a connected organization, in this case Abilene Christian University, and connected teaching and learning,  can look like. 

We're getting to a stage in the learning game where we should be thinking about ways to help students create connections to each other and to their learning.  Handing students and teacher a device that connects students and serves as a platform for the teaching and learning in a system just makes sense, even though it's not always a socially or culturally or politically accepted idea.  That needs to change.  Soon.  I feel like the political climate for 1:1 (or even 1:3, or 1:10) continues to improve - but we're still in a transitional place between analog and digital instruction. 
    I can't say that the iPhone is THE device - I couldn't imagine writing anything of substance on the iPhone or any other tool without a reasonable keyboard - but I understand why they featured it, as I do think it's a game-changer, in terms of its functionality and ease of use.  Of course, there are plenty of other game-changers coming to the table at the moment.

Dear Readers, Please Forgive

   Please forgive Typepad.  They've apparently mixed up their feeds, and have been pushing celebrity gossip through mine and many other Typepad users.  Yet another reason why I contemplate leaving.

   I'm sure they didn't mean harm, and that they'll apologize for, or at least acknowledge, their mistake soon.

  Right, Typepad?

Update: This was posted in the help ticket area of Typepad.  I found it when I went there to complain about not seeing a notification anywhere else.  I guess I don't know why they didn't post this somewhere a little more public. 

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