Comments on: Boundaries Blurring, Writing Getting Real at School http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/ . . . and beyond "schooliness" - notes of a 20th c. teaching drop-out Sat, 05 Jul 2008 09:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: One Brilliant Student Blogger: A Comic Life Satire on Schooliness | Beyond School http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2599 One Brilliant Student Blogger: A Comic Life Satire on Schooliness | Beyond School Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:05:09 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2599 [...] 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 [...] […] 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 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2378 Lindsea Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:58:00 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2378 I meant "like" not "link". Wow, Freudian slip... <em>Lindsea's last blog post..<a href='http://lindseak.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/anger/' rel="nofollow">Scanned</a></em> I meant “like” not “link”. Wow, Freudian slip…

Lindsea’s last blog post..Scanned

]]> By: Lindsea http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2338 Lindsea Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:31:45 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2338 I'll send you those songs. I think you'll link them. <em>Lindsea's last blog post..<a href='http://lindseak.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/a-tv-show-for-the-blogging-generation/' rel="nofollow">A TV show for the blogging generation</a></em> 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 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2330 Pat Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:37:13 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2330 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. <em>Pat's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SuccessfulTeaching/~3/242651932/using-voicethread-in-classroom.html' rel="nofollow">Using Voicethread in the Classroom</a></em> 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 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2324 Clay Burell Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:35:17 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2324 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. <em>Clay Burell's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cburell/~3/242428437/' rel="nofollow">Boundaries Blurring, Writing Getting Real at School</a></em> 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 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2323 Jenny Luca Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:40:09 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2323 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. <em>Jenny Luca's last blog post..<a href='http://jennylu.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/were-the-doorway-but-students-are-the-key/' rel="nofollow">Students showing us the way - that means you Lindsea!</a></em> 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 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2322 Clay Burell Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:48:26 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2322 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 <a href="http://students2oh.org/2008/02/10/where-do-we-draw-the-line/" rel="nofollow">Sean Law's post on Students 2.0, "Where Do We Draw the Line?"</a>, 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. 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.

]]> By: Charlie A. Roy http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2320 Charlie A. Roy Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:43:52 +0000 http://beyond-school.org/2008/02/28/boundaries-blurring-writing-getting-real-at-school/#comment-2320 What are the boundaries? As a principal my teachers turn to me on guidance to advise them on certain limits. I don't like living and working in a world that is perpetually scared of law suits because of fears of what ifs. In the building we advise to have conversations in public settings etc. Is positing back and forth on a public blog more or less the same format of communication? Education is people focused so it will always be messy because of that. Sharing interests etc. is part of life. One of the students in my school shares a love of commodity trading. As a former pit options trader I find it remarkable a 17 year old living in Peoria (not a world financial center) would have the same interest. I've e-mailed her some articles and always cc her parents. As we continue to operate in this new frontier it is a poignant question to ask, "What are the new boundaries?". <em>Charlie A. Roy's last blog post..<a href='http://web.mac.com/theroyfamily/Site/Region_One_School_Blog/Entries/2008/2/24_Survey_Monkey_a_New_Web_Tool.html' rel="nofollow">Survey Monkey a New Web Tool</a></em> What are the boundaries? As a principal my teachers turn to me on guidance to advise them on certain limits. I don’t like living and working in a world that is perpetually scared of law suits because of fears of what ifs.

In the building we advise to have conversations in public settings etc. Is positing back and forth on a public blog more or less the same format of communication?

Education is people focused so it will always be messy because of that. Sharing interests etc. is part of life. One of the students in my school shares a love of commodity trading. As a former pit options trader I find it remarkable a 17 year old living in Peoria (not a world financial center) would have the same interest.

I’ve e-mailed her some articles and always cc her parents. As we continue to operate in this new frontier it is a poignant question to ask, “What are the new boundaries?”.

Charlie A. Roy’s last blog post..Survey Monkey a New Web Tool

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