What happens when what is going on in your classroom can be shared around the world? Today, by sharing his students at Arapahoe High School in Colorado, Karl Fisch gave us just that opportunity–to peer into a classroom and see networked, scaffolded, engaged students at their best. For weeks, students in several English classes at [...]
Entries from February 28th, 2008
The classroom heard ’round the world
February 28th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
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Meme mashup
February 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Web 2.0
Seems to be a meme-theme lately As you probably know, a meme is a game of tag, where someone tags you for a theme, and you pass the tag along to other blogs. Liz Davis and Diane Cordell have both tapped me for a “Blogs that Make Me Think” award. And not to sound like [...]
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On hope
February 25th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Change
“It’s too easy to criticize hope. And in the end, cynicism is a lousy strategy.” Seth Godin. Best blog post I’ve read in awhile. While it was most likely referring to recent politics, Godin’s words could be applied equally to technology decisions in schools. Many of us who work with students on web 2.0 tools [...]
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What do we celebrate?
February 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Learning
Perhaps there should be an adage–what we celebrate, gets done. The issue of celebration has been cropping up lately, both in discussions on campus and in my extended network. When we are doing something well in our district classrooms or libraries, is that being celebrated within the district (as well as without?) We celebrate the [...]
Five things
February 19th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Collaboration, libraries
I’ve been thinking a lot about a session at TCEA’s Library Sig group meeting, where Barbara Jansen and her former principal Marla McGee did an excellent presentation about ‘five things librarians would want their principals to know about their programs’. (See Dr. Mary Ann Bell’s excellent summary of the session). Barbara emphasized the importance of identifying what your ‘five most [...]
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Coming back home
February 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
In his post last week, “Changing Ourselves, Changing Our Culture,” Will Richardson finds irony in the fact that “teachers are connecting more and more outside their spaces but, it appears at least, not so much inside their own districts and communities.” I’ve found that to be true for myself until recently. I’ve had only a [...]
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No longer on an island
February 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0
What is the value of being networked? Yesterday during my Hill Country Librarian Presentation on “How to be a Networked Librarian,” I threw that question out to my twitter network. The responses from my network were so varied and tremendous, that I wanted to share them as a resource when we talk about the power [...]
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To all of our students
February 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
and to the students of NIU– “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” Elie Wiesel When something like this happens, it is a reminder that [...]
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Handy new tools
February 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
Just some quick tool-sharing since I haven’t done that in awhile– I’d been looking for a place to upload videos (other than YouTube) or Teachertube(too slow) and a few of my twitter friends suggested Vimeo.com. I tried it today and found it a handy tool for uploading video. It’s easy to use, and you can also mark [...]
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Moving beyond four walls
February 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Student projects
He liked to tear around on his tricycle. He died in Vietnam when he was 25. His name is Brian O’Callaghan and he is one of the many soldiers whose name appears on the Vietnam Wall. His sister shared this photo with one of our students as part of a project our junior English [...]
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