Comments on: Boundaries Blurring, Writing Getting Real at School

By: One Brilliant Student Blogger: A Comic Life Satire on Schooliness | Beyond School

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:05:09 +0000

[...] I’m sharing a lot of student bloggers on Beyond School lately, it’s because we only launched our high school-wide blogging program back in mid-January. Two [...]

By: Lindsea

Lindsea — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:58:00 +0000

I meant "like" not "link". Wow, Freudian slip... Lindsea's last blog post..Scanned

By: Lindsea

Lindsea — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:31:45 +0000

I'll send you those songs. I think you'll link them. Lindsea's last blog post..A TV show for the blogging generation

By: Pat

Pat — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:37:13 +0000

I think sharing common ground is important with other students (even if you don't teach them). I spent a lot of years telling students that I'm a teacher I may have more book knowledge then they do (but they usually have more common sense than I do). But as people, I see us on the same level. Pat's last blog post..Using Voicethread in the Classroom

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:35:17 +0000

Jenny, Wonderful news! Consider attending the Learning 2.0 Conference in Shanghai as well (or instead?). It’s geared toward the eastern hemisphere.

Add Patrick Nam (on skype, saintp446) to your skype contacts and consider pulling him into your class via Skype too. He’s one of my Seoul students, and being roughly in your time zone (plus a Korean with a New Zealand accent from his years there ), he’ll be a good contact for you and your students.

Finally, I’d love to do a podcast interview with you and your principal to publish here on Beyond School. Administrators like him are crucial to making the shifts happen. Let me know if you’re both keen. Let’s do it real soon.

Clay Burell’s last blog post..Boundaries Blurring, Writing Getting Real at School

By: Jenny Luca

Jenny Luca — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:40:09 +0000

This is our future Clay and it’s starting to happen now. Lindsea is inspirational. Our school is going to get on board with your Global Cooling project – we’re hoping to launch it next Thursday afternoon with our Yr 9 students and hopefully have Lindsea join in with Skype to help get our students motivated. I talked with my Principal today and he’s really supportive. He wants me to present these ideas about the future of learning to our School board. I mentioned the NECC conference in June and he’s asked me to give him a proposal outlining costs etc and intimated that it’s a possibility that I can go. I’m so excited- all of this is possible because of this network – it’s truly incredible!! Thank you.

Jenny Luca’s last blog post..Students showing us the way – that means you Lindsea!

By: Clay Burell

Clay Burell — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:48:26 +0000

Hi Charlie,

I’m with you. I interact with the high school students who choose to interact with me roughly as I interact with any other person online – honestly, playfully sometimes, and without shying away from controversial ideas (another word for that critical thinking canard society – or at least school – pays lip service to.

I guess I’m lucky because I’ve had so many careers, and am so used to change, that I don’t worry about losing my job as an educator for trying to be the best educator I can, by my own lights. I just trust I’ll land on my feet.

If you haven’t read Sean Law’s post on Students 2.0, “Where Do We Draw the Line?”, it’s a great post with a great discussion.

Thanks for dropping in. You sound like the kind of administrator I’d like to work with as a teacher.