Category Archives: assessment

Three Uses of Diigo in the History and Language Arts Classroom

March 31, 2008 – 9:13 pm

I’ve been a Diigo user for two years come July. Seems like everybody and their grannies have adopted it in a Twitter-induced stampede over the last two days (I think Will had something to do with it).
As I said on Twitter, the flood of emails requesting “friendship” on Diigo sort of shocked me (I […]

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Basketball without Borders Slam Dunk: Networked Learning Class Update and Video

March 25, 2008 – 2:16 pm

It’s been about six weeks since my last update on the ten-week-old Networked Learning class I created with the help of so many of you in the initial Open Thread post and Twitter. Students are still grading themselves and justifying it - and showing the same fondness for grade inflation as so many […]

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Using Flock and Split Screen to Give Feedback

March 23, 2008 – 5:40 pm

Just a quickie to share a new discovery: I just switched to Flock from Firefox - which I loved, but has been way too buggy lately - and I find it feels just like Firefox, but faster and more stable. Better still, I found a new addon called Split Browser (see a monster list […]

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Podcast: Three Schools Discover the 21st Century!

March 22, 2008 – 1:07 am

One for the MiniLegends

[Update: I was out of the loop preparing for my wedding when Australian Al Upton’s MiniLegends and Qatar’s Jabiz Raisdana got hit by two shockingly reactionary hammers. Since this podcast features Noel Thomas, an Australian high school principal representing all that is most forward-thinking and impressive about Australia’s educational system, I’d […]

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Random Acts of Deceleration (Bill Farren Guest-Post 3)

March 10, 2008 – 11:33 pm

[Bill Farren posts his third weekly installment on Education for Well-Being (the full series: my intro “Beyond ‘Did You Know?’ - A Video for Viral Times: ‘Did You Ever Wonder?’“; Bill’s first guest-post, “Education for Well-Being“; Bill’s second guest-post, “The Hidden Curriculum“; and Seoul sophomore Patrick Nam’s outstanding podcast interview with Bill for Project Global […]

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