Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
This podcast, a follow up from the other day, is about further thoughts on how we plan to teach digital storytelling at my school in the next several weeks. If you want to listen to my thinking on how and why to teach digital stories, this is the podcast for you. For links […]
Read More The Podcast: Telling Stories with TechnologyIn today’s podcast, I’m asking some questions about digital storytelling (like, for example, is it digital storytelling if you don’t use pictures?) as well as sharing some ideas and asking for input on some resources I am creating for a class that I’ll be team teaching in a few weeks. I also mention […]
Read More The Podcast: Creating Resources for Digital StorytellingOne of my great frustrations lately as a teacher is that I am not having more success teaching blogging, as in blogging the verb Will Richardson, to my students. The value of blogging, as I’ve come to learn, is in the way that it requires that I interact with source material, either […]
Read More Framing Blogging – Making ConnectionsTeaching, sometimes, is all about fits of frustration and rushes of passion. But not in that order. It’s been an interesting January. I’ve learned lots along the way. More soon.
Read More January Races PastAfter a long delay (one month, to be precise), I present to you, via podcast, the audio from Greg, Bill and my presentation at NCTE’s 2006 Annual Convention. The hour and fifteen minute workshop is about how we are using blogs with our students in different ways and for different purposes. My contribution […]
Read More The Podcast: NCTE 2006 PresentationWhile I’ve been moving to the notion for some time now that what I should be doing as a teacher is to help individuals work their way into learning networks, I certainly haven’t been thinking so in isolation. One person that’s really, really helped me to clarify my thinking on the matter, as […]
Read More Network, Not Group WorkThanks for those of you who made suggestions, both on and offline about how I should handle Saturday’s blogging workshop. Turns out, I ended up using the yarn again. What is it about yarn and blogs? Let me explain. After a quick introduction, I asked all of the […]
Read More Yarn. Again.In this podcast, my first in a while, Darren and I discuss going back to school, what we’re up to with technology, and our thoughts about some plans that we have. The podcast ends with Darren’s announcement about the K12 Online Conference. As always, we’re both interested in hearing your thoughts, […]
Read More Podcast: Beginning the School YearI’ve got a piece in today’s Fort Collins Coloradoan on fear and writing and basketball. The best part is that my students were a big piece of this column — I basically gave myself their first writing assignment and was able to model for them what I wanted them to do — take […]
Read More Making BasketsI’ve learned as a teacher that the more I help others, the less time I have to complete my assigned daily work. Pretty much, school systems are set up to punish the helpful. I hope that’s not intentional. Pretty much, the more I teach, the more I realize that I’ve got to […]
Read More Being Helpful