communication

The effect of communication tools on education

April 25, 2011

It should be clear to anyone reading this that the type of tools we have for communication strongly affect how education occurs. If we examine communication tools over time, we can see two trends in our communication tools.

History of communication tools

Moderating external projects

March 26, 2010

For the past three years, I've been an official IB Assistant Examiner. This means that each May (or November, but I usually don't sign up for the November sessions, too busy), I get sent a whole bunch of external exams or projects, and I have to grade the assignments. The money isn't great, it's a huge amount of work, but I see it as really valuable.

Miscommunication through minutes

March 26, 2010

So had a minor incident happen today. I was taking minutes for our weekly meeting, trying desperately to keep up and summarizing as I went. One of the things I wrote was apparently too much of a summary, and missed the gist of what was trying to be said. As a result, someone else got into trouble for something that they probably would not have, had they been able to keep track of what was said. This happens as a result of the failure of the written word, especially the poorly written and quickly done written word, to actually capture what everyone means.

Creating a WiiMote interactive white board at my school for under $50.

November 11, 2009

So someone sent me a link to the video below and I decided to act upon it. I thought I would link my resources I find for this project here, and keep you all up to date on how it is working.

Communication tools

October 18, 2009

Our assignment this week was to choose two communication tools, either synchronous or asynchronous in nature, and use them with our LMS. The tools we choose can either be an internal part of whichever LMS framework we have chosen, or some external tool.

Geogebra Open Presentation writing

April 17, 2009

Google Docs has a really cool feature I'd like to try out. The idea is that I have a presentation on Geogebra that I would like to host. There was a lot of interest before, and unfortunately I had to cancel, but I'd like to try again. I'm not a Geogebra expert however, just an enthusiastic intermediate level user. I'd like to create a presentation for beginners to use, but don't want to miss anything important.

That's where you come in, if you are interested. The idea is, I've created a presentation, which you can access at:

Communication Online with Students Outside of Class

December 2, 2008

Once you've started working with creating and managing online resources for your students, it becomes natural that the ways the students communicate with you is going to change a little bit. Here are some guidelines for ways you can communicate with your students, and some ways to protect yourself while doing so.

DAVID WEES