School ended on Saturday(a makeup ice day)though I am working for a couple more weeks, teaching workshops, etc. So I’ve been a bit quiet due to the rush of end of school, library, and family events, but also just needing some time to back off and reflect. There’s a lot to process about the last year, [...]
Entries from May 28th, 2007
Videoblogging “Espanol” style!
May 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Student projects, Web 2.0
Antes del fin de escuela mañana, los estudiantes de la clase de Sra. Garza se prepararon el “videoblog”– Students from our Spanish AP class prepared this videoblog from their class for the Notes in Spanish videoblog project on YouTube. Our staff and I helped slightly with the video editing process and uploading the project, but the [...]
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Blogging Friday
May 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Cross Curricular Connections, Web 2.0
We haven’t celebrated Blogging Friday in awhile, so today I want to highlight two new bloggers in our district! Margie Brown, one of our elementary tech coordinators, has started a new blog, K5Tech, which is already impressive. She’s already been sharing projects going on in our district at the elementary level, and it’s fascinating to see [...]
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Blog commenting
May 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
I was very happily surprised recently to be picked by Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant as a “Fantastic commenter.” It’s nice to be recognized, but it also leads me to think about the values of commenting on a blog in general. Why comment on someone’s blog? It lets someone know you are “out there” reading. (For example, [...]
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The things we carry forward
May 14th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Web 2.0
In January, when we began talking with our English 3AP teachers about a way to make their Vietnam Wall project more “reachable” online, the goal was to allow students who were reading The Things They Carried to retell the stories of those individuals whose names were listed on the Vietnam Wall. Now, our collaborative Vietnam Wall Experience project [...]
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Inviting students in
May 12th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Play
Yesterday was a unique event which the library hosts every May — Dylan Day. If you aren’t familiar with it or aren’t from our campus, Dylan Day is a celebration of community and music, where teachers and students play and share Bob Dylan music for an entire day. It is the brainchild of one of our [...]
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An innovation conference for educators?
May 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Innovation
Yesterday I wrote about the TED Talks, how inspiring they were, how the Encyclopedia of Life got jumpstarted there, and how I was thinking we should begin an innovation group at our campus. Then tonight, I read on think:lab that a group of education folks have been quietly planning a world wide “TED Talks” for [...]
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A grand vision–the Encyclopedia of Life
May 9th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Web 2.0
An exciting new project has just been announced–the Encyclopedia of Life, which will be a worldwide clearinghouse encyclopedia for information about all life forms. Edmund Wilson conceived of it as a way to collect information about every organism on earth, and presented the idea, which was in the works, recently at an innovation conference called TED [...]
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Giving students a voice
May 9th, 2007 · No Comments · Web 2.0
When people wonder about the power of web 2.0 tools or about the use of blogging, a story like this one about Miles Levin, a high school student who blogged about his life with cancer, illustrates the true human power of sharing our stories online. How many people can be reached by his experience because he wrote [...]
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23 Things for School Librarians (and Teachers?)
May 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
Summer is coming and one way to learn more about web 2.0 sites is through the power of play. Thanks to Sunlink for pointing out the California Library Association’s 23 Things program, which is a step-by-step, self-guided tutorial through many web 2.0 sites. It is patterned after a Learning 2.0 training program at the Charlotte Mecklenberg Public Library, where staff was invited [...]
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