Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
My superintendent was honored yesterday by the Colorado Association of School Executives as the Colorado Superintendent of the Year. Very cool. I respect him very much, and feel he’s the right guy to win this award. I was pleasantly surprised, too, to see that my local newspaper has begun to embed video […]
Read More CongratulationsI forgot just how easy it is to use a camera phone to send photos to Flickr. It took me longer to enter in the e-mail address for my Flickr account than it did for the first, and unashamedly ugly, photo to upload. Since I’ve set up the account to automatically add the […]
Read More I ForgotJay Mathews has an interesting request : So I have asked Gardner to help me, and him, become more familiar with this new opinion delivery system by joining me in a blog-judging contest. I hope readers will e-mail me at mathewsj@washpost.com and Gardner at walt.gard@verizon.net the links to their favorite education blogs — […]
Read More Another Nominatory ProcessThe 2006 Edublog Awards are now open for nominations. If you’re into such things, go ahead and send in a nomination or two.
Read More Edublog AwardsI’m not sure if I agree with Paul Allison’s statement that maybe there’s a new discipline lurking in the work that we’re engaged in online: Like composition teachers at the 1966 conference at Dartmouth College, like social studies teachers carving out a unique discipline alongside history and sociology–”the integrated study of the social […]
Read More WiFi at 40,000 FeetI’m on an ARG kick right now, based largely on the success that I’ve found with a couple of students and Cathy’s Book. We’ve really enjoyed puzzling our way through that book. Puzzles, the literacy of ARG’s, are tricky for me, but lots of fun. We took a look at this great cypher […]
Read More Codes & CyphersI was catching up on some poetry reading tonight. Glad I did . Here’s an excerpt: an image of a moment in time so singularthat only words will serveto etch it forever on the patterns of my memoryto provide some comfort when I am oldto give testimony to the painful beautythat was my lifethat […]
Read More Good Night for a PoemThis week marks both the and the NCTE Annual Convention. I’ll be at both — since they’re both in Nashville and at the same time. I’ll be presenting at both, too, which means it’s going to be a busy week. Whew. Good thing I went and got sick last week instead of […]
Read More Gearing UpNight is about to fall on the end of the first K12 Online Conference — and they’re going out in style, with a 24-hour webcast, broken up into one or two hour sessions hosted by folks all over the world. Things get underway at 12:00 GMT, which is 5:00PM Mountain Time. Head on […]
Read More Night Soon Falls