Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
There's a thin pink-orange ribbon on the eastern edge of everything. Going to be a great sunrise. # Nice piece in today's paper about @learningdonna and her student poets. Good work. http://j.mp/1fseOm # RT @KyleneBeers: Interactive web broadcast of Nat'l Day on Writing celebration starting 9 EDT tomorrow http://tiny.cc/HIxcH Spread the word # You still […]
Read More The Week in Tweets for 2009-10-26Today is the , which is the reason for this podcast, recorded as I headed home thinking about the writing I’ve been up to today. I’m so grateful for this time to think about writing and its place in my life. What . How and when and where and how do you write and celebrate […]
Read More The Podcast: I'm Writing Right NowI <3 Screenr. Enough to use an emoticon. # @karlfisch True. But I'm working through it. And still warming up. in reply to karlfisch # Spent the morning fighting iTunes. I wish it'd quit trying to be smarter than me and just let one sync mixed media playlists to iPods. # Give Karl ten minutes. […]
Read More The Week in Tweets for 2009-10-19@dwarlick Thanks – that was just the post I was looking for. in reply to dwarlick # Starting the morning with a 90's dance party. Because every Monday should start that way. # H1N1 sounds so clinical. I think we're going to refer to this thing as "90's Morning Dance Party Flu." # @jenorr Ew. […]
Read More The Week in Tweets for 2009-10-12Earlier this morning, I tweeted this: Do you ever want to say to folks who scream they don’t want their private lives online: “Maybe you should just try to be a better person.” ? And I realized that I didn’t quite say what I meant there. I believe that privacy is important and special, and […]
Read More On ModelingEarlier today, I sent a link to a student’s Twitter account to a staff member in the school he attends with a request that she share the link with a counselor in the school. I read some things that caused me to worry for him. Nothing too extreme, the sorts of things that kids, particularly […]
Read More Intruding. In Public.Run's done. # @courosa @arieliondotcom @gsiemens I RT plenty I don't agree with. If I find content worth talking about, I RT. Passing it along. in reply to courosa # RT @smartinez nobody gives kids worksheets and says, "here's a fun math game!" why do we expect them to believe it when it's electronic? # […]
Read More The Week in Tweets for 2009-10-05Do me a favor, would you? Take a few minutes, right now, and read Tom Hoffman‘s “10 Reasons You Should Care About the Common Core State Standards Initiative’s Draft English Language Arts Standards.” He’s doing the thinking and linking that needs to be happening around these proposed standards. Folks need to be reading and talking […]
Read More Tom’s Doing Our HomeworkEver since we opened up lots more of the Internet in our school district earlier this year, the district has received several requests from teachers and other staff to block resources that are distractions in the classroom. I’ve written a stock response to those requests that I thought might be worth sharing. It’s my hope […]
Read More Would You Please Block?I received a Twitter direct message earlier today from someone who is frequently a teacher of mine. This individual was curious about why my Twitter following/follower ratio was something like four to one. My answer, which was also a direct message, was: The short answer is because I don’t find value in following every person […]
Read More It’s Not Personal. No. Really.