Comments for Theburntone's Weblog http://theburntone.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:45:26 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Embedding A Link by Connie @ Yugma http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/embedding-a-link/#comment-69 Connie @ Yugma Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:45:26 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/embedding-a-link/#comment-69 Hi Theburntone, This is Connie from Yugma. On behalf of Yugma with our One Year Anniversary, I would like to thank you for mentioning us on your site and helping us to spread the word about our product. The blogging community had had an integral part in making Yugma one of the fastest growing real-time web collaborations services in 2007 with over 100,000 users to date. To express our thanks, we’re donating/sponsoring Yearly Premium Yugma accounts (valued at $99.50) to bloggers who simply ask. To learn more about this program and how to get your sponsored Yugma account, check out the details on the Yugma blog – linked below. http://www.yugma.com/blog/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=261&Itemid=1 Please be sure to check this out soon! The window to request your account through the Yugma Blogger Program will be through the end of January, 2008. With Greatest Appreciation, Connie and the rest of the Yugma Team Hi Theburntone,

This is Connie from Yugma. On behalf of Yugma with our One Year Anniversary, I would like to thank you for mentioning us on your site and helping us to spread the word about our product. The blogging community had had an integral part in making Yugma one of the fastest growing real-time web collaborations services in 2007 with over 100,000 users to date.

To express our thanks, we’re donating/sponsoring Yearly Premium Yugma accounts (valued at $99.50) to bloggers who simply ask. To learn more about this program and how to get your sponsored Yugma account, check out the details on the Yugma blog – linked below.
http://www.yugma.com/blog/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=261&Itemid=1

Please be sure to check this out soon! The window to request your account through the Yugma Blogger Program will be through the end of January, 2008.

With Greatest Appreciation,

Connie and the rest of the Yugma Team

]]> Comment on Embedding A Link by 2aperuse http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/embedding-a-link/#comment-68 2aperuse Tue, 04 Dec 2007 03:53:12 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/embedding-a-link/#comment-68 Hi. I read you blog. Hi. I read you blog.

]]> Comment on A forgotten place by Anne http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/a-forgotten-place/#comment-67 Anne Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:33:32 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/a-forgotten-place/#comment-67 I enjoyed the slide shows ... not though when I was trying to link your site with bloglines while on Skype. Then they were just surprising! I enjoyed the slide shows … not though when I was trying to link your site with bloglines while on Skype. Then they were just surprising!

]]> Comment on ICT Learning for students in a high school (Great Digital Divide) by oakvilleboy http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-66 oakvilleboy Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:04:19 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-66 It is a huge issue. I usually opt in favor of inclusion. Do you make a child that is not well off feel worse by having all kinds of high tech activity going on around them. I think you have to work on supporting the child as much as possible, usually involving social services from school, the community, etc. I think once you get to the point where students are learning then you can start thinking about elearning, mlearning or whatever. It is a huge issue. I usually opt in favor of inclusion. Do you make a child that is not well off feel worse by having all kinds of high tech activity going on around them. I think you have to work on supporting the child as much as possible, usually involving social services from school, the community, etc. I think once you get to the point where students are learning then you can start thinking about elearning, mlearning or whatever.

]]> Comment on ICT Learning for students in a high school (Great Digital Divide) by sunnytechgirl http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-65 sunnytechgirl Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:42:25 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-65 Just one comment about mLearning. The mobile devices are not quite there yet when it comes to some services. Both Palm and Blackberry run their own browsers and so some web pages are inaccessible through these devices. It's been a huge source of frustration to me in the last few weeks since I want to access a site which uses javascript and neither of these devices can do it. After conversations with the companies it doesn't seem likely to happen soon enough for me either. On the other hand there is an amazing amount of mobile software available. I had no idea! Just one comment about mLearning. The mobile devices are not quite there yet when it comes to some services. Both Palm and Blackberry run their own browsers and so some web pages are inaccessible through these devices. It’s been a huge source of frustration to me in the last few weeks since I want to access a site which uses javascript and neither of these devices can do it. After conversations with the companies it doesn’t seem likely to happen soon enough for me either. On the other hand there is an amazing amount of mobile software available. I had no idea!

]]> Comment on A forgotten place by berdron http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/a-forgotten-place/#comment-64 berdron Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:30:29 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/a-forgotten-place/#comment-64 Two great slide shows, great job! Two great slide shows, great job!

]]> Comment on Check out my Slide Show! by sunnytechgirl http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/check-out-my-slide-show/#comment-63 sunnytechgirl Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:11:36 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/check-out-my-slide-show/#comment-63 That's a very neat cross-fade transition that you have going there. I like the frame and the music too. I wish I had more time to play but this essay is killing me. That’s a very neat cross-fade transition that you have going there. I like the frame and the music too. I wish I had more time to play but this essay is killing me.

]]> Comment on ICT Learning for students in a high school (Great Digital Divide) by 2aperuse http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-62 2aperuse Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:44:04 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-62 I have just glanced at the mygradebook.com site. I have read your blog and have had experience with some of the home - school communication problems that you mentioned. I read the comments that you've received so far and have found some of sunnytechgirl's latter comments re: home visits and buddy systems to have been useful. It's like you have to 'mix it up' a little ... it's, basically, another ,extended, take on differentiating instruction. You do the best you can with what you have to work with. The internet connected kids get the online communication and they act as buddies to their 'ill' classmates who haven't this advantage or other unconnected 'well' buddies and home-school staff deliver hard copies to share with the 'ill' students. This continues until we implement a 1 student : 1 computer 'plus' campaign in our own back yard. With one chronically absent student I found myself visiting the home and encouraging the child and mom. There was some improvement in attendance. Albeit, illness is another thing. I have just glanced at the mygradebook.com site. I have read your blog and have had experience with some of the home – school communication problems that you mentioned. I read the comments that you’ve received so far and have found some of sunnytechgirl’s latter comments re: home visits and buddy systems to have been useful. It’s like you have to ‘mix it up’ a little … it’s, basically, another ,extended, take on differentiating instruction. You do the best you can with what you have to work with. The internet connected kids get the online communication and they act as buddies to their ‘ill’ classmates who haven’t this advantage or other unconnected ‘well’ buddies and home-school staff deliver hard copies to share with the ‘ill’ students. This continues until we implement a 1 student : 1 computer ‘plus’ campaign in our own back yard. With one chronically absent student I found myself visiting the home and encouraging the child and mom. There was some improvement in attendance. Albeit, illness is another thing.

]]> Comment on ICT Learning for students in a high school (Great Digital Divide) by sunnytechgirl http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-61 sunnytechgirl Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:20:39 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-61 One solution is the Public Library in communities large enough to have such a service. I believe that all public libraries provide free access to computers, although I think some libraries require you to show a membership card. Of course the other part of this solution is that if your family is struggling financially you may not be able to get to the library even if there is one in your community and of course if you're home sick you won't be making a field trip to the library. Does your school division have a social work on staff who makes home visits and could take the homework with them? I've known teachers who have made home visits or given students rides home but this can be a sensitive area if the student is embarrassed to have you go to their home or to meet their family. What about a buddy system where a friend or sibling of the student drops off the homework or communication? One solution is the Public Library in communities large enough to have such a service. I believe that all public libraries provide free access to computers, although I think some libraries require you to show a membership card. Of course the other part of this solution is that if your family is struggling financially you may not be able to get to the library even if there is one in your community and of course if you’re home sick you won’t be making a field trip to the library. Does your school division have a social work on staff who makes home visits and could take the homework with them? I’ve known teachers who have made home visits or given students rides home but this can be a sensitive area if the student is embarrassed to have you go to their home or to meet their family. What about a buddy system where a friend or sibling of the student drops off the homework or communication?

]]> Comment on ICT Learning for students in a high school (Great Digital Divide) by lylemad http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-60 lylemad Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:18:56 +0000 http://theburntone.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/ict-learning-for-students-in-a-high-school/#comment-60 This may be far fetched, but let's give it a stretch: Why not have all the money confiscated or clawed back from that of the drug dealers go towards that of purchasing computers for schools? I mean enough of the profit is made off our students, why shouldn't we be entitled to some of the spoils to the positive. Before we can even begin to focus on that of computers in the home, how about computers in the school: stable, functioning connections to each and every well supplied classroom throughout the building. I hear say that Swan River High School is very well equipped, one of the best, if not the best in the province and this didn't come about by accident: it was an integral part of the school plan... Like that of educating a child: How can I afford to? becomes how can I afford not to? Where there is the will can be found the way... This may be far fetched, but let’s give it a stretch: Why not have all the money confiscated or clawed back from that of the drug dealers go towards that of purchasing computers for schools? I mean enough of the profit is made off our students, why shouldn’t we be entitled to some of the spoils to the positive. Before we can even begin to focus on that of computers in the home, how about computers in the school: stable, functioning connections to each and every well supplied classroom throughout the building.

I hear say that Swan River High School is very well equipped, one of the best, if not the best in the province and this didn’t come about by accident: it was an integral part of the school plan…

Like that of educating a child: How can I afford to? becomes how can I afford not to? Where there is the will can be found the way…

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