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The Long View

August 3rd, 2007 · 2 Comments · Learning, Student projects, Teacher Learner

I’m joining Patrick Higgins today via Skype for a workshop he’s conducting on web 2.0 for teachers in his district.   The plan is for me to share the Vietnam Wall project that our English 3 AP students completed last spring, so I’ve been looking through my post about it, re-viewing some of the student projects, [...]

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Making the potion: Focusing on the research process

July 17th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Learning, Research, Student projects, Web 2.0

A few days ago, I wrote about reflective learning, and really identified with Will Richardson’s and David Warlick’s comments about focusing on the learning and community, and how the process sometimes gets lost in the production of the product.   Ironically, as I was reading Harry Potter: Order of the Phoenix last night, I noticed that [...]

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Videoblogging “Espanol” style!

May 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Student projects, Web 2.0

Antes del fin de escuela mañana, los estudiantes de la clase de Sra. Garza se prepararon el “videoblog”– Students from our Spanish AP class prepared this videoblog from their class for the Notes in Spanish videoblog project on YouTube.   Our staff and I helped slightly with the video editing process and uploading the project, but the [...]

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Blogging with parents

April 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Student projects

Karl Fisch at Arapahoe High School shared an interesting project going on at his campus–teachers covering the novel 1984 are asking parents to voluntarily read and blog along with the students. One fascinating aspect of it is that the teachers asked the students to blog about some “blogging expectations” for their parents.   It’ll be interesting [...]

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Global Connections

March 28th, 2007 · No Comments · Student projects

   I’ve been working the last month or so on a project with one of our English teachers, Marcia Curtis, relating to the novel Kite Runner.  She was interested in connecting with a school in Afghanistan so that students could interview students there, or communicate with them directly in some way.  We did quite a [...]

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Offshoring student assignments

February 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Student projects

This international project from Clarence Fisher at the blog Remote Access is fascinating.   Students from four countries are participating in what he calls an “international assembly line” on a research question.  Students in  schools in Kuala Lumpur and Columbia are providing one part of the project and then students in Canada and the United States [...]

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