DuoLingo

I spend a lot of time on the web and searching out solutions for my educator colleagues. I watched a TED talk this afternoon that really amazed me.

http://bit.ly/TEDduolingo

I believe that Duolingo - http://duolingo.com/ has the potential to change language learning. The age of internet collaboration now allows 750 000 000 users to collaborate. The talk describes how 100 000 worked on the pyramids and to put a man on the moon. What if we could have 750 million working instead. Imagine the possibilities.

This just gets my creative juices going. In our school district we have 5000 teachers. If we each were able to provide 10 seconds per day, that is almost 14 hours toward a task.

What could we do with an extra 14 hours of work each day?

An ever changing world

I love working with technology because of the variety and the flexibility to meet the needs of so many. The hate side of the equation is trying to manage what is important to me. I explore a plethora of ideas; however, only a limited amount can become mine.

Blogging is an awesome tool to reach many. It has served me well in terms of dissemination as well as receiving.

As I am preparing for September, I realize that I have neglected my blog for too long; however, I am hesitant to jump back into the fray of blogging. Why?

I am moving at a faster pace in micro blogging with Twitter. While I have once again set good intentions, if you see a lapse in my blogging, I am likely active in twitter @amboe_k Tags that I follow and post to include: #bctf #bced #sd36learn and #canade