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Sunday, July 6th, 2008People who spend most of their non-working hours online surfing and chatting to no really useful end forego exercise, activity, time in nature, time with friends and family. Studies show that kids who spend all their time playing video games (on and offline) tend to do more poorly in school and, at the extreme ends, […]
Book Trailers
Friday, June 27th, 2008I haven’t been writing on this blog for a while… but in case I’m still on anyone’s feed.. I have to brag.
My students created great book trailers in my class this spring. I was very proud of them. Please go take a look. And comment! I’d love to know that someone has been able to […]
rhetoric and debate or saving your bacon
Sunday, January 13th, 2008This is a great video to use to introduce a unit on rhetoric and debate. The author is a high school science teacher and he has a series of videos on global warming. I plan to view them all and definitely use this one to intro our debate unit
Blog Benefits
Saturday, January 12th, 2008Okay… so everyone always talks about how children really need us to teach them about social computing. No they don’t. They do all the social computing they could ever need. But, they do need us to show them uses they aren’t thinking about. That in mind, my question to myself is […]
Up(dated)
Saturday, January 5th, 2008I’m updating by blog after a hiatus. (thank you Damien for the prod; I needed it)
I haven’t been updating of late because all I do is work blogging with my students. I spend a lot of my nights getting their blog entries up. The deal with my tech director for unblocking typepad was that […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sprachgefuhl
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Reading David Warlick today pondering the use of Wikipedia as a source of information for a piece he’s writing, it occurred to me that the English language obliquely suggests the ambivalence that he feels regarding it’s usage.
I want to use the Wikipedia! And, I don’t want to use the Wikipedia! My reasons for wanting […]