How do you empower students to engage with a text in such a way that they can come to their own understanding of it? I just participated in a fascinating live blogging experiencewith Maura Moritz’s and Karl Fisch’s students at Arapahoe High School. The students were using the inner/outer circle discussion method in their classroom to discuss [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Collaboration'
The peanut butter cup effect
February 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Collaboration, Student projects, Teacher Learner, Web 2.0, Whole New Mind
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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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Like schoolkids
September 23rd, 2007 · 5 Comments · Collaboration, Teacher Learner, Tools, Web 2.0
I feel like a giddy schoolgirl this morning–just having so much fun interacting with other educators around the world who are also giddy about what they are doing. While most of us in the U.S. were sleeping, Jeff Utecht of Thinking Stick in Shanghai was testing out a new site called WizIq (a new site that [...]
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Collaborative research–Rethinking the model
August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Collaboration, Future students, Learning, libraries, Research
As I have been doing some reading all summer, my whole notion of research is shifting somewhat. Maybe it is reflecting the shift that many of our students are living, as well. I’m coming to realize more and more that although in schools we treat research as a somewhat solitary activity, in its true form, [...]
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The power of collaboration
August 28th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Collaboration, Tools, Web 2.0
Uber librarian Joyce Valenza has created an extremely helpful wiki listing copyright free music and art sites for student projects. Since it’s a wiki, anyone using it can also contribute sites to it, and create as she calls it, an “uberwikipathfinder” for copyright free media. The wiki’s sidebar lists links for music, clipart, and even image creation [...]
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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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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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Why not?
April 1st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Collaboration, Web 2.0
I was taking a second look at SlideShare this morning, which if you haven’t seen it, is like a professional’s “YouTube” for uploading powerpoint presentations. They are doing some creative things there, like holding a “world’s best presentation” contest, and letting users vote. (An aside– I noticed a version of Karl Fisch’s and Scott McLeod’s presentation, Did You Know, is [...]
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Writing a novel the “wiki” way
March 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Collaboration, Web 2.0
Penguin Books has just completed a fascinating project, at a millionpenguins.com,which was a collaborative novel written entirely by volunteers on a wiki site. As their introduction notes, “The buzz these days is all about the network, the small pieces loosely joined. About how the sum of the parts is greater than the whole. About [...]
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