When a mini-van viral marketing campaign makes you want to buy a mini-van, you know you have reached true adulthood!

It’s old but funny!

One of my students is running for student council president. How can he give himself a leg up against his competition? Make a video. Use media to inform, entertain, and spread his message, or at least in this example his humor.

Collaborative Creation Tools

As we continue to discuss the creation of a 21st classroom space at NVHS, I reflect on what I believe is an essential piece of technology in this space.

I believe it is essential to have a set of devices in a classroom that can foster student-centered creation in addition to a device that facilitates gathering student input and feedback.

Students are already creating content constantly: they create YouTube videos, and make photos they post to Flickr, they doodle and draw in class, they journal in 140 character Twitter/Facebook updates. In addition to interacting and engaging digitally with their peers, why not try to engage them with the content we love, while utilizing the skills and capacities they’ve already built? 

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The Answer Sheet - Why schools should try things not "research-based"

Best Practices vs Next Practices…

Interesting. If we only spent 10%, and not the prescribed 30% we would be in good shape! 

Saturday morning cereal and cartoons … http://campl.us/EGB

What I believe about technology and learning in education…

The following is a working list of some beliefs regarding technology and learning in education:

  1. An active student is an engaged student.
  2. Students should be given the opportunity define their own lines of inquiry.
  3. We must promote collaboration in our classrooms.
  4. We must allow students to create…something.
  5. Giving the students a voice and involving them in active discussions leads to deeper capacities.
Imagination is the antithesis of tradition.
Jay Walker

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I need to write more…

What’s the Point?

 

I have many questions and thoughts, that lead to more questions and thoughts, that lead to more questions and thoughts.

You get the point.

I claim to be a lifelong learner, and that is something that I take great pride in. I am thirsty for knowledge. Knowledge to inform my career, my hobbies, my parenting, and so on. I need a place to reflect on this information. I hope to use this little place on the web as my digital journal. All this in addition to the fact that I have been wanting to write more, has lead to the creation of this digital space and joemacchia.com

It’s simple. Just write. Just reflect. Just think.

That’s my goal, hope it’s not to boring!