Alright, so I’m in my Saturday morning yoga class and, doubtless due to the CCK08 influence, my mind wanders to noticing the structure of the class and the role played by my yoga teacher. This is a class of, roughly, 25 adults, who come together for a 75-minute class once a week. This instructor (Cheryl) [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘CCKO8’
October 25, 2008
CCK08: Wayfinding on Mount Manadnock
Today, my family and I climbed to the top of Mt. Manadnock (a 3,165-foot, lone mountain in the southern end of New Hampshire). I know, I know hiking mountains (even comparitively little ones like this) in New England in late October isn’t the smartest of things, but hey. We got to the trail head [...]
October 20, 2008
CCK08: Thought on Grainne Conole’s Mapping Model
I just returned from the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) conference in Memphis, TN where I attended many excellent sessions and gave one workshop myself on applying technology to biology teaching. I had a great group of 60 (mostly) secondary school teachers who were enthusiastically interested in applying web 2.0 tools to their teaching. [...]
October 14, 2008
CCK08: Qualities of Connected People
Girl Mailing a Letter
Originally uploaded by Smithsonian Institution
After reading Jenny Mackness’s blog entry about her 82-year old mother (loved it), I started thinking more about what human qualities help to insure our connectedness. And are these qualitie that can be nurtured, developed, enhanced? Surely, indentifying the qualities of well-connected people would be step [...]
