Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
rsion coming Bill’s written about two interesting items in a recent post. The first is the idea of a learning contract that he intends to use with his students in the fall. The second is the notion of "seductive teachers." I’ll let him : At least with my ninth grade classes, I’ll be using […]
Read More Thanks, Bill — Now I'm thinking again!I recorded a podcast yesterday on my feelings about the blog blocking discussion. But I’m not going to share it with you. I realized shortly after recording it that sometimes, the process is more important than the product. There was a lot on my mind yesterday — filters […]
Read More Podcasting for private reflection?This is the 100th post on this blog. That’s not the reason for this post, however. Yesterday, I started using a new podcast rig. I was testing it out and stumbled into a podcast. In this podcast, I discuss and reflect on the experiment, the social in social software, and perhaps ramble on […]
Read More The 100th Post, and a Podcast to BootThe other day, Fred the Fish stopped by and left this comment: . . . As a first year, untenured teacher in California, I ask: how far can we go before the standards yank our collars and pulls us back? As I plan summer school, which includes a reprisal of the Vagina Monologues […]
Read More Pushing the BoundariesYesterday in class, we stumbled into our first podcast. We were talking about how to grade blogs — and then we got to talking about a lot more. In true Dave Winer fashion, I started the recorder to capture their thoughts. I was blown away by the words and ideas coming […]
Read More The class speaks . . .er . . .podcastsMy desk is messy — so is my job. Susan Ohanian writes in this piece that teaching should be messy — and that we should resist those who want to oversimplify it. It’s coming up on the end of a very tumultuous year for me — Ohanian’s essay reminds me of why the […]
Read More MessinessThis morning, after reading Will’s "script" for talking about safety concerns, I realized we’re looking at safety the wrong way. Hopefully, this story helps. Last week, we took our students to the local recreation center for an all-day school-wide retreat. The focus of the day was to do some community-building. As part […]
Read More More on SafetyAfter many delays that taught me a great deal about hosting media and recording audio, I am pleased to share with you the first of three conversations with Darren Kuropatwa, a math teacher and blogger who is discovering with me out here in the edublogsphere. My goal, in recording our conversations, is to […]
Read More At long lastSpent some time tonight in conversation and collaboration with Darren Kuropatwa, a blogger, high school math teacher, and really neat guy up in Canada. He and I have been emailing back and forth on the idea of putting together some conversations on blogging and other tech stuff. Had a great chat about blogs […]
Read More Collaborative PodcastingMy blogging students and I got to work today on our portfolios. The end goal is to create a school-wide electronic portfolio system. We’re the pilot. Before we could get too far, we had to figure out some basics — pretty essential stuff like where we will host stuff and how we will […]
Read More Portfolio Progress