'teacher research' Category
e-authoring our eduselves
I’m thinking about how the edublog genre might be like listening to a hatchling through the eggshell, if embryos could talk. It’s a public narration of the emergent self. The current Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (March, 2007), a themed issue about e-portfolios, got me going on this.
Troy Hicks and a cadre of teachers [...]My Trail of Breadcrumbs
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 [...]
Reading to Write
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 [...]
Writing about Thinking about Writing
We may hear that students are motivated to write, or that their writing is more “authentic,” when they have a real purpose. We may observe that when students publish their work online, they enjoy getting comments from their classmates, teachers, family members, and even strangers who read their work, and they become more interested [...]
Contested Ground
My classroom doesn’t work the way I want it to. In the Age of Accountability, I focus on process, and see product as a secondary concern. I’m an ill-fitting peg, uneasy about participating in what, for me, amounts to a charade - emulating archaic practices designed for kids from bygone eras.
Looking at the group [...]Community Plumbing
It’s been frantic, the last couple of days, getting the kid site going.
Yesterday, Day 1, students all had material ready to go, saved in portable keyboards and on a file server, so everyone could jump in together, and we wouldn’t have to be concerned with “creative flow” and technical procedures simultaneously. After they logged [...]Monday Morning
Harris Salat, from the Visual Thesaurus, interviewed me last summer. Harrris is a good interviewer, and we talked about many things that didn’t get published. He was most curious about what we call our “Alaska lifestyle,” which mostly meant salmon fishing when I spoke with him. Even though I don’t believe the word, cute, is [...]
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 [...]
Classroom Operating Manual
There is no way to tell everyone on the first day of school - or even the first few days - everything they need to know about “operating” the classroom. I pick the most basic things, managing supplies, using the hall pass, getting lunch, knowing what to do when you come in the room, what [...]
Classroom Fieldnotes Wiki
Last year I began thinking about how, after so many years of teaching, I should have the beginning of the year figured out. But I don’t. Each year I dig around looking for a file that I call “first week of school” or something. It has informational letters to parents, and it also has beginning [...]
