Seen on my 4th grade nephew’s Science Fair trifold acknowledgments– “I would like to acknowledge Wikipedia. . . and my mom and dad…”
Entries from January 29th, 2009
Solar, wind, or electric: Harnessing the energy
January 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Change, Collaboration, Web 2.0
This morning and yesterday morning both I had the honor of attending the Flat Classroom Conference in Qatar and the Educon 2.1 conference in Philadelphia, both remotely. What was funny was that I felt such a sense of community in the chat rooms talking to students and to other wired educators, sometimes more of a [...]
7 things you did not know about me…and more
January 21st, 2009 · 5 Comments · Web 2.0
Paul Wood tagged me for this “meme” (7 things you don’t know about me) but I’d actually like to answer it both personally and professionally. As a librarian, I think there are lots of things people don’t know about librarians. And since I have readers all over the spectrum, I thought it’d be fun to [...]
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The perfectionism barrier
January 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Web 2.0
“Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.“ Harriet Braiker In our Artist’s Way group today we talked about perfectionism and how it can block us artistically. This can be extended to our students as well. How often have we seen students really struggle with their research paper topics or their writing? (or [...]
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The writing way
January 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Teacher Learner
Recently, I’ve been involved in a group studying Julie Cameron’s book The Artist’s Way. One of the tenets of her book is writing what she calls “morning pages”–several pages of uncensored, stream of consciousness writing that is done first thing in the morning. The idea is to clear your head of other thoughts which interfere [...]
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