Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
Jim is a kind and faithful reader, and he works to provide blogs to teachers in his area. (Check out what he’s doing here.) To my recent mention of attending the CLAS Conference, he comments: I’d be interested in hearing what you think is a successful conference for you. I think if I […]
Read More Post Conference ReportSteve over at Teach42 has posed some really, really interesting questions. He writes/asks: It’s a fascinating topic. Blog the noun, vs. blogging the verb. They are very different things. Thinking about blogging as the set of ’21st Century Skills’ that students must know to create and maintain a blog puts a very […]
Read More It’s the LinksI don’t know if I’ve just entered the blogging community at the right time or what, but I sure am seeing lots of convergence between my ideas and what I’m reading right now. Tom Hoffman is talking about a school-wide blogging system – and that’s what I am looking for. Unfortunately, he […]
Read More Thought Convergence?Two days ago, I was blogging my understanding of blogs and what and how they can operate. I have noticed that I write something like this every few days — I think partly because I get excited and the synapses begin to fire and I need a way to unload that excitement […]
Read More Bud and Blogs, 2.0I added Future Tense, a short technology program, to my ipodder client the other day. I’ve been enjoying the three minutes or so of tech news. Monday’s edition of the show really caught my ear — so much so that I played it for some students at school yesterday. Here’s the summary […]
Read More Technological GutcheckI’ve been thinking about what a school district policy on blogs would look like — and what I might want to ensure does not end up in the policy. One or two thoughts on this follow. One thing that I think is essential with students and blogging is that the […]
Read More Been ThinkingBill Johnson of the Rocky Mountain News, a columnist I always make sure to read, weighs in today on lots of the craziness going on in Colorado. I’ll let you discover most of the craziness for yourself. His mention of a school administrator in Norwood, Colorado, who both banned a book and apologized […]
Read More A (New) Teacher BurnedI’ve been team-teaching a Shakespeare class this quarter, and I’ve found a site that has the complete works of William Shakespeare in one place. Check it out. We’ll be using the site today as a place for students to pull quotes from Hamlet as they complete a double-entry journal (Here’s the easy-cheesy […]
Read More Shake that spearMy science fiction class was in the computer lab today (We have 20 computers for 100 students and I want to get the entire school blogging . . .but that’s another story.). They were working on their postings for our discussion board. Actually, most of them were in the chat room on the […]
Read More Chatting AwayTonight is parent night at our school. It’s a chance for us to meet with our parents, show tem around the school, and talk to them about our program. "Alternative high school" is a label drenched in assumption — some accurate, others not so accurate — and tonight we get to address some […]
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