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Jason Ohler

Monday, April 14th, 2008

During the MACUL conference of 2008, I worked on gaming similations and how the work in the classroom. More and more of our student’s are becoming gamers, thus increasing the visual literacy skills. To ignore this development would be done at our peril, thus I am looking at ways that we can use […]

Google Docs and ReQal

Monday, March 17th, 2008

In my work with special education students, I have found two tools that have been of great interest and help. They are free and while I don’t have a lot of data to support my impressions, I do have a number of students and families using Google Docs and ReQal.
Google Docs give me students […]

Mobile Phone in Education

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Vacuum - Edward Vielmetti in Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104: Elliot Soloway on the Scoble Show

Time to Go to MACUL

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

It has snowed better than 5″ here and all the schools are closed. Nevertheless I expect by colleague, Michael Smith to arrive soon and off we will go to Rockford for today’s preconference workshop on gaming.

MITS lessons

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

This is a test of WordPressDash

Snowclones

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Dave, I can see the connecting of disposable artifacts and I appreciated the chance to participate in this presentation.
When I tried to start eluminate, I became confused between it’s asking for a name for me with a name for the session. That “duh?” was on me.
20 mins. into the session, my audio went out. I […]

Participating in Education of the Future

Monday, June 4th, 2007

I am looking forwarding to learning more about online collaboration working with the Future of Education Online Conference.

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Will Richardson and the Skype network.

Friday, March 10th, 2006

I am having a blast listening to Will Richardson.  He is giving quite the series of talks today.  I love his work and following it.  Being an early el teacher makes for a different perspective but it inspires me.
Through Dave Cormier, I found that Will was going to skype him for a demo.  So I […]

Presenting at MACUL with my Skype colleagues

Friday, March 10th, 2006

Yesterday afternoon I had fun presenting at the Michigan Association of Computer User’s in Learning (MACUL) conference in Grand Rapids, MI. I created a wiki to support my discussion of Embracing Community and Reflection through
Online Digital Portfolios. I appreciated the chance to organize and share some of the experiences of the past 8 […]

A Voyageur Birth

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Today is my 52nd birthday. It has been a quiet uneventful one. Coffee, smoothy, a trip to the gym, pool, sauna and off to the classroom. During the day I continue to be thankful for my wife and family. I am enjoying my instruction in the computer labs. What is […]

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