Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
What happens when your game is more than a game? How about Othello, World of Warcraft style? One of my students produced this video as his final project for my Shakespeare course this year. He chose to involve his family in the project (they help with the voice work) and to shoot the […]
Read More A World at His FingertipsWe’re looking at how we do things at my school right now, for a bunch of reasons. For one thing, it’s always a good thing to be looking at how you operate to make sure that you’re doing the best that you can. For another, we’ve got some concerns about how our students […]
Read More Reading and Writing. Every Day.Today’s 5:00pm radio news update combined with the filtering conversations of late inspired this podcast. As always, first draft thinking. One note: I named a couple of different states. I was wrong about both of them. The news blip that pushed me over the edge today happened in Kansas. Links: Will Richardson‘s blogbanning […]
Read More Podcast: Myspace, Myspace, MyspaceTerry Freedman has some useful reminders on how not to make an educational technology lesson boring.. Actually, he’s written a pretty good reminder of how to plan good lessons. Here’s a piece of the well written and quite handy post: The teacher spends too much time talking Most people learn by doing. […]
Read More Go Back to the BasicsMy spring break is now over, and it’s back to work. Today’s podcast is some "clearing the cobwebs" first draft thinking about the recent Washington Post article on teachers blogging as well as a conversation about George and educational experimentation. In the middle, I’m also asking about bandwidth and how it can get […]
Read More Podcast: The Post and Our Buddy GeorgeLast Wednesday, a student and I were invited to speak at the monthly meeting of CSU’s student affiliate group of NCTE. We had a conversation for about an hour about alternative education and our experiences as teacher and student. Lots of good questions and several laughs were shared. I didn’t intend […]
Read More Podcast: Alternative Education — An Evening with NCTE@CSUIt turns out that Google Earth-Fever is contagious. After the success of yesterday’s explorations, my students in my science fiction class were suddenly very curious to know more about the software. Lots of great questions — but the most common was simply, "Can you show me my house?" And I […]
Read More The Universe at Our FIngertipsOkay, I know that Google Earth has been out for a while, and I got my geography fix even before that with NASA’s Worldwind, but I really figured that the tool was a novelty at best. Boy, how stupid I can be sometimes. I had the opportunity this afternoon to […]
Read More I Get It . . .NowToday’s podcast features some thoughts about anonymity, both with students and with teachers. Curious to hear what you think. Does anonymity have its place in the classroom? How about anywhere else? On a side note — I’ve been doing about one podcast a month for a little while now. Should I be […]
Read More Podcast: Anonymity (Again)The more I teach, the more I realize how little I actually know and how much more I really have to learn. And soon.
Read More Friday Night Socratic Moment