Archive for May, 2005
Beginning Again
I received a certificate this week because I’ve been teaching in the district for 20 years. You’d think that I would know what I’m doing after all these years, but as time goes by I feel less certain that I know how to teach.
Teaching is a complex profession. There are not very many jobs [...]Student Blogs and Sovereignty
The end of every school year presents a change of workflow for teachers. Many things are required to bring closure to the academic calendar. Record-keeping especially rears its ugly head with permanent records, portfolios, and report cards all needing some attention. Additionally, the teachers at my school this year have the added challenge of boxing [...]
Blog. Students, Teachers!
I’m learning from my students, and I’m learning from other teacher-bloggers. I want to recognize the valuable work that Bud Hunt and Susan Sedro are doing to support the efforts of teachers who are exploring issues that arise as we open our classrooms to socially enabled software. Bud’s idea of creating a repository [...]
Case Closed
The Wikka crew helped me out on the IRC #wikka channel the other day with the ‘friendly urls’ / mod_rewrite problem I had on the TrueNorth wiki. I can put this discussion to rest (on this blog, at least) by way of documenting the cascade of errors I made which caused the problem and [...]
Commitment
I think commitment is a mark of character and the prerequisite of success with any meaningul goal, and I would just like to give one more nod to the developers of Wikka Wiki for taking an active interest in my satisfaction with their product. Wikka Wiki has my vote for “wiki engine of the [...]
Unsolved Mysteries
Update: 12/02/05 I discovered a broken link (to the Wikka Wiki site) in this post, which is now repaired.
I appreciate the comments I got today from two of the Wikka Wiki developers, Nils Lindenberg and Marjolein Katsma. They responded to my April 26 post about some problems I had working with the Wikka [...]
