Archive for October, 2007
Blog Pride
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007I’m really proud of my students… not all of them… but most of them are up and running with their blogs. I’m still struggling to get an organization that I can live with, and typepad is not my favorite tool for this. I’m thinking of migrating to Wordpress, because it does so […]
Transparency
Monday, October 29th, 2007I remember reading a bunch of blog entries by Miguel Guhlin on transparency. Most of the time I felt like it was a bit naive to think that you could really keep all your choices, reasons, opinions and feelings above deck. Education is a highly political environment and you just never know. […]
Standards Soup
Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007I have been looking everywhere for rubrics that I can use in my classes for blogging. I will undoubtably have to create my own shortly. But, in my search, I came upon this posting by Jeff Utrecht of The Thinking Stick. He’s struggling with whether we need tech standards, and I think […]
Bye Bye JJ
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Thanks to the people who emailed or responded to my post about my run in with my dog. I appreciate your kindess and support. The black eyes have gone down and the swelling is receding. The scar will be there. I can’t tell yet whether it will be raised or just […]
Ripping your face off
Sunday, October 14th, 2007My dog bit my face yesterday. Actually, it’s not my dog… anymore. I was with my husband and he was laying on the couch. I took my dog and lifted him up onto my husband’s chest and I sat down on the floor next to them both and tried to give love to my dog […]
What’s a meta phor?
Sunday, October 7th, 2007David Warlick makes a metaphor… and I love it. He likens the way students approach their learning to the way they approach their food… to sustain them, fuel next steps perhaps? But, teachers wear the clothing of their learning. It defines them. I’d like to meditate on those images to […]
blog evolution
Sunday, October 7th, 2007LAST YEAR’S BLOG
Last year, I kept a classroom blog and students left responses in comments. See here. Primarily, it was a place for students to leave assignments. Very occasionally, they responded to each other. I felt it was a successful project. The benefits included:
more involvement from the bottom […]