The end of the school year always feels like a mixed bag–excitement at the thought of relaxation and summertime, but wistfulness and sadness at saying farewell to the year, with students and friends leaving, and with things left undone, potential unfulfilled. But usually it feels over. Like things are packed up–put away, set aside, and [...]
Entries from May 28th, 2008
Collective blogs
May 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration
Some of my twitter acquaintances have started a new blog, The Mommy Gig. And as I was reading it, I was thinking about other “group” blogs like LeaderTalk for administrators, or like Students 2.0. I like the idea of using a group blog for students in a class as well. It’s a way to feature [...]
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Reaching out
May 21st, 2008 · 5 Comments · libraries
An interesting Twitter conversation the other day has had outreach on my mind. The other morning, several of us — Kristin Hokanson, Jenny Luca, and Robin Ellis and others were debating how to reach out to librarians (or teachers) who were reluctant adopters of technology. We concluded that there are several factors at work and [...]
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Creating “space” for thought
May 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments · Change, Learning
Our campus has a Vision committee which I’ve mentioned before, made up of parents, students, administrators and teachers. Yesterday at our meeting, we were discussing the books Five Minds for the Future by Howard Gardner and Horace’s Compromise by Theodore Sizer, and in discussing the two books together some interesting alchemy came up. One of [...]
Always room for good design
May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Web 2.0
I was fortunate to catch a glimpse via a live Ustream of librarian Jenny Luca’s presentation at a conference in Australia this past weekend, and I wanted to note it for two reasons– 1. Though I couldn’t hear well, the presentation visuals were so engaging that I wanted to watch it. 2. She introduced me [...]
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Libraries, schools and third places?
May 11th, 2008 · 5 Comments · Design, libraries
As the culture outside our schools change, are our buildings changing to reflect the “outside” world? Mitchell Joel’s interesting Six Pixels of Separation blog comments on a fascinating article in the Economist, “The New Oases,” about how people now are much more nomadic in their use of spaces. (I found Joel’s blog via Garr Reynold’s excellent Presentation Zen blog). Wi-fi, mobility, and [...]
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Curriculum and relationship
May 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Change, Learning, Teacher Learner
A group at our campus is starting a professional learning community. I’m cross posting the post below from the blog we have started, which we aren’t quite ready to share “prime time” but are using for our organizing thoughts, because I thought it would have interest outside of our campus. ———— In our meeting this week, [...]
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Finding daisies in the pasture
May 6th, 2008 · No Comments · libraries, Research
In his inimitable style, Doug Johnson posed a research question that I’m pondering this evening– “Is requiring print resources a sacred cow that needs to be put out to pasture?” My initial response(from his site) was that: “I have very mixed feelings about this. It feels somewhat artificial sometimes to say “one print source” but [...]
Empowering ourselves to empower our students
May 2nd, 2008 · 7 Comments · Change
In a passionate post about school change, Chris Lehmann pondered a speech he gave in Oregon yesterday: “I want to tell them that we have to question every single system we have in our schools. I want to tell them that everything should be on the table. All of it.” A number of us watched [...]
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31 day comment challenge reflections
May 18th, 2008 · 10 Comments · Learning, Tools, Web 2.0
How are our online conversations part of our own learning? I’ve been loosely participating in the 31 Day Comment Challenge, (which is an effort to focus on improving blog comments through various activities.) It’s been a little bit of a learning curve for me to figure out how to use coComment, which is the tool we [...]
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