As I come out of a somewhat self-imposed holiday hiatus, I’ve been catching up on “end of the year” blog posts. They have me thinking about where we’ve been this last year and where we are going. Jeff Utecht deems 2007 the year of the network, and 2008, the year of the live web. I would [...]
Entries from December 31st, 2007
A gift for the world
December 23rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
”My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?” ~ Bob Hope We’ve decided to give our own children a gift for others this year. How about a flock of ducks, a child’s health, [...]
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Stakeholders
December 22nd, 2007 · No Comments · Renovation
Surviving a renovation process is a learning experience, and it has me thinking about stakeholders and decision-making. What happens to decision-making when key stakeholders are left out? What happens to schools when we don’t ask for our student voices for example? What happens when we don’t garner the collective wisdom of our experienced teachers when making decisions? [...]
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Where in the world are our librarians?
December 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments · libraries
Tomorrow our library move is over and the renovation of our library begins. For a year, I’ll be housed in our ninth grade center, floating to classrooms, and functioning as a “virtual librarian.” During lunch periods, we’ll be manning an internet cafe in our main building, providing laptops, research help and new books to [...]
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Farewell old friend
December 17th, 2007 · No Comments · libraries
We’re almost finished moving out of our library. So I just wanted to say goodbye to a comfortable old friend. When you’ve been in a library for 17 years, you know it backwards and forwards. Almost every book on the shelf you were responsible for purchasing. You know the history of the school, and all [...]
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Lock, stock, and barrel
December 16th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Learning, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
I don’t often write ’inside info’ kind of posts, but in the last two days, I witnessed an amazing example of a learning network in action. Twitter, a site I’m a huge fan of as many of you know, announced it would be going down for maintenance for most of Saturday. Since a number of us rely on [...]
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Changing our perspective?
December 13th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Web 2.0
We all work with teachers(and students) who are struggling with the idea of using technology–who dismiss it as a fad, or are overwhelmed, or feel that technology keeps our students from communicating with one another and that they need less, not more. How we approach the integral nature of technology in our lives is because of our [...]
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Some geeky shopping diversions
December 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0
I’ve been doing a little online shopping today (haven’t we all?) and ran across some fun techie clothing. I find it a little ridiculously geeky that I’d get excited about a tshirt that has the RSS logo on it, but I did, so there ya go. But I was also excited in looking around at how [...]
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The silent majority is going to speak
December 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Future students, Web 2.0
Wow. The edublogging universe has just shifted. The students are joining us. I am so incredibly thrilled about a new blogging project launched by Clay Burell, a colleague in Seoul, Korea, and a talented group of international students(glad to see a few I already read in there!) In fact, I am so jazzed about Student 2.0 [...]
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No way to go back
December 7th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Future students
What happens once our students write for real audiences outside of their classrooms? What happens when they see the power of authentic and personal writing? In her post questioning the merits of the SAT, student Nicole plaintively writes, I just feel that the “writing” test isn’t a test to see if we are capable of writing a [...]
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