I’m off to Bangkok for the Apple Distinguished Educator 2007 Asia Institute in 24 hours, so I’m crazy rushed: sub plans for 3 missed classes, packing, the usual teachery stuff (gradebooks and other banes), prepping a presentation for how 1:1 is working (and sometimes not working?) at our school. (I really look forward, more than [...]
Archives for the Month of November, 2007
Quick Round-Up: Bad Selflessness, Bad Morality, Edublog Awards, and Students 2.0 Blog Countdown
Thursday, 29 November 2007
Update on “Visionary Student Blogging” Project
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
I’ve chronicled my fantasies (and here) and ice-water reality-baths about this project so far. I told you last week or so how my initial approach – to invite buy-in rather than “assign homework” – didn’t work. Too many students were simply not writing. That carrot failing, I went “teacher-y” and used the grade stick. It’s [...]
Thanks or Bugger Off? On Edublog Awards
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Re: This: First response: “I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have me as a member.” — Groucho Marx Second response: “The people in my blogroll (see left sidebar) are my own nominees. What’s the meaning of such an exercise?” Third response: “But the edublogs folks have done a lot of service [...]
On the Stager and Richardson UStream “Bootleg”
Sunday, 25 November 2007
If you’ve got an hour to burn, you might enjoy watching Will Richardson and Gary Stager in this moderated keynote discussion at NYSCATE recently. (h/t to David Jakes for “bootlegging” it with his laptop for UStream.) Stager’s skepticism about much of the edublogosphere discourse is a healthy corrective for the “cheerleader 2.0″ bandwagon we’re all [...]
Creators vs. Exam-Takers: A Student Blog Debate, and Prayer for the Death of the SAT
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Shim, a senior in my AP Lit class, started a mini-debate with his post, “Students or Slaves?” Nicole linked and extended, then Jane disagreed, then Daniel jumped in with this Think about it as Lego. If one wants to build something, the basic pieces are needed. Without the pieces, a building cannot be built. In [...]
Fun Little Test: Left-Brain or Right-Brain?
Saturday, 24 November 2007
On the Psychology of Blogger Identity
Saturday, 24 November 2007
Paradise Lost Digital Storytelling Series: Second Try, Thanks to Feedback
Saturday, 24 November 2007
After my first outing doing a rather “schooly” self-assignment for AP Literature, I got what I asked for: friendly and constructive criticism – “assessment”? – from Dean Shareski, Bud Hunt, AnneO, Diane Cordell, and my flat world team-teacher/blood brother Chris Watson – all whom I thank for taking the time. So you’ll notice these changes: [...]
Doing as I Say: Digital Storytelling iMovie Practice with Paradise Lost
Thursday, 22 November 2007
When you work at a 1:1 school – really, when you’re a teacher who assigns any digital storytelling projects to your students – it only seems responsible to know whereof you assign. So I assigned myself a language arts project for my AP Literature class: Task: Using illustrations from historical editions of John Milton’s Paradise [...]
A Bitch. A Hellcat. An Absolute Doll: Who is Taylor the Teacher?!
Thursday, 22 November 2007






