Thursday, December 28, 2006
Graham’s post about e-portfolios for teachers kicked off this rumination. He’s thinking about a research question regarding the sustainability and motivation for teachers to invest their energy into the development of an online presence. Stimulated by this question – I’ve taken it up myself. But not as a research project. Just a thought. What purpose [...]
Saturday, December 23, 2006
Paul Allision, on Teachers Teaching Teachers, posed a key question about what blogs can do, and what we want them to do for our students. The question is whether blogging is a means to achieve skill or content goals in school, or… “Does blogging have a set of intellectual habits and skills that are worth [...]
Friday, December 22, 2006
Susan, a recent blogging acquaintance, tagged me with a meme post. Thanks, Susan, and because it’s Christmas, here’s 5 things you might not (care to?) know ’bout me:
I’m left handed. (I’ve been wondering how I was ever going to work this into a blog post.) Somehow – and maybe only other southpaws would know what [...]
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Time’s How to Bring our Schools Out of the 20th Century article referred to a “high-powered, bipartisan assembly of Education Secretaries, business leaders and a former Governor,” aka The New Commission on Skills for the American Workforce, who released “a blueprint for rethinking American education.” This is not a document that inspires giddy optimism for [...]
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
I was in the doctor’s office a couple of days ago with a broken hand (from a fall while walking our dogs on an icy road). The nurse put a thermometer in my mouth. I told her I wasn’t sick. She said, I know, but if I don’t do this the doctor will want to [...]
Monday, December 11, 2006
The Huffington Post has a new education blogger on board – Gerald Bracey. According to his announcement, Ariana asked him to step up so they could provide an Ed policy section. Here’s the link to Bracey’s blog. There’s a feed for all the Huffington Post bloggers, but I don’t see one for just the “education [...]
Sunday, December 10, 2006
I occasionally think about how managing a classroom is similar to running sled dogs. When the dogs see the harnesses and the sled come out, the howling, the jumping, and mayhem sets in. It’s amazing how many tangles, chewed lines, and dog fights you can end up with while you’re hooking up 8 or 9 [...]
Looks like some fans of the Borderland blog want to push me into the center of things. Josie Fraser emailed me this morning to say that Borderland made the shortlist of best teacher blogs for the 2006 Edublog Awards. Fun stuff!
Been thinking about what I might say here to acknowledge this honor and [...]
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
A student helped me write this post. I’ve been trying to get a grip on some new (for me) ideas about teaching fourth graders about writing with weblogs.
I told my students last week that they could look up information about the historical periods the fictional Time Warp Trio kids traveled to in the books they’re [...]
