Archive for September, 2006
Acting Locally
It’s strange that there is an audience for this blog that reaches all over the world, yet there are but a few people, locally, who read it (that I know of). I’ve been thinking about the likeliness that anything substantive will be accomplished by a lot of global-thinking bloggers who don’t make any local noise, [...]
Empathy and Tenacity
Sarah Puglisi left a comment about the Reading Wars here last spring that I enjoyed for its critical punch. Here’s an excerpt:
I still find it ironic that I’ll use whole language phonics and build phonics and writing and get results…because it was so explicit, but so practical. We do need to do so much…individually [...]Your Blog Ate My Comment
Quentin D’Souza is Tracking Down Educators who use Social Bookmarking (del.icio.us). His post describes the research process he used to make a list of teachers who are using the service. He said that he’s “building up the Social Bookmarking tools section of the wiki. In a recursive twist of information flow, I found this through [...]
Prelude to Student Publishing
In a comment left here a few weeks ago, thegirlwhopaintedtrees asked “How do you introduce the class blog to your students in the fall?” This was a good question. And since I’ve never introduced a class blog to students in the fall, I directed her to Mark Ahlness, who listed his posts about blogging with [...]
