Beyond School

I’m embarrassed. I’ve been using Bloglines as my “hourly newspaper/magazine/blogzine” (and “infinite reading machine”) for at least a year or two. But only this weekend did I pull my head out of my nether-regions and realize that I could be using it for student blog and wiki management and assessment as well.

So I just subscribed to all my students’ blogs and wikis, so they all come to me now. No more “million-tab grading.” Unbelievable. (I think I owe Clarence Fisher thanks for this one. He’s been posting a good bit lately on Remote Access about the big-picture, seamless info-management skills he’s developing in his students. It was reading his blogs that caused a “click” in my tree-focused brain.)

So here’s a screencast to show you the beauty and power of it all. Enjoy. (It’s about six minutes. It answers traditional teacher negativity about changing habits of mind about edtech in teaching.)

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