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Standards Soup

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

I 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, 2007

LAST 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, 2007

Reading 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 […]

balking

Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

Reading Bud the Teacher write about being out of the classroom got me thinking about this past spring. I had an opportunity and a good shot at a job as a technology facilitator in my district. I work well with my tech director, I want to work more closely with technology, I’m interested […]

optimal experience

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

I don’t really have a need for this right now, but it is really cool. If you’re looking to optimize your text for search engines, one of the best ways to do that has been made that much easier. Live Keyword Analysis allows you to analyze your text for density of keywords. […]

how to

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Vicki Davis lists her de.li.ci.ous tags every day or so. This morning (3:30 am) she has linked to a woman who is going to Cambodia to teach people to blog. It has me thinking about blogging in my classroom this year and how I want to do it differently from last year.
Last […]

teach a man to fish…

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

David Warlick’s got a good point. He talks about independent learners and preparing students for their futures. And he’s right. Learning how to be an independent learner is not just an essential skill… it’s the essential skill. David talks about it in terms of preparing students for […]

why we blog and why we don’t

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

Miguel Guhlin asks us to think about why we blog. Well…okay. Here it is. I’m finding blogging scary. I took down my blog in the Spring, and although this is it now resurrected, I’m not really writing on it much. I think I’m having a little problem.
The educational system is […]

scope and sequence

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

I read Miguel Guhlin’s post today. As many of the innovators in tech ed seem to be doing lately, he struggles with his frustration at the slowness with which the educational bureaucracy takes on the new. This was my response:
Digital storytelling, podcasts and global projects are great tools and wonderful ways of involving […]

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