Archive for the ‘Classroom Blogging’ Category
Sunday, April 1st, 2007
I recently got an email from Kirsten Roos, a reader of my classroom blog. She teaches science and health in Alaska, and was impressed with some of my students' blogs. She was extremely complimentary, particularly of my students' sense of voice (and conventions and creativity) in their writing. She asked ...
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
I just had to share this from one of my students. She is a very high achiever, and has given her blog audience (if that's the way to put it) a chronicle of her trying out for, and making, the school spelling bee team. She has blogged about a few ...
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Thursday, February 8th, 2007
I blogged a while ago about an exciting opportunity that presented itself for me to use blogging and wikis with one of my students that was going to be gone to India for a few weeks.
The dream was dependent on my student having internet access when she was in ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Steve Dembo recently blogged about "Blogging for your own future reference." It struck me as such a relevant point that I left the following comment:
Great point!
I was just about to reflect on this general point myself. I see my own blog as sort of a resource for those teachers that ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
This is an example of how a Family Internet Night can work.
It's from Mark Ahlness, in Seattle, Washington.
I thought I'd share it here.
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Sunday, December 17th, 2006
In teaching, sometimes we are asked to put together a "Travel Study" plan for students who are going to be gone for anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks.
This is what happened to me recently. However, this one was significantly different! It was so exciting, I had to ...
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
David Warlick has recently created a couple of "how-to's" about setting up a professional blog account. He's don one for edublogs (which is what I'm using here), and another for blogger.
I offer them here in hopes that they might help you get started.
Here's his orginal post where he offers these ...
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2006
I don't know how much cross-posting I should be doing, but I had to share this with this audience, not just my students & parents.
In my class, we've been talking about the layers of the earth, leading up to the concepts of plate tectonics. One of my students did a ...
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
As I was preparing to write a post on this topic, I thought for a moment about what would be the best destination for my thoughts. Should I put it on my classroom blog, with my students and their parents as the primary audience? Should I put it on "Teach ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006
There has been an enormous amount of buzz in the ed-tech blogosphere lately about DOPA, Delete Online Predators Act.
Here is the wikipedia article about it. Be sure to glance at the Arguments in Opposition.
This is also a good summary from David Warlick.
In short, this is a bill that would go ...
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