Announcing… ΨΨ The Winner of the McCain Stump Speech Wordle “Write Your Own Caption” Competition © ΨΨ I am pleased to announce the winner is the very talented Vincent Robletto, whose Kerblotto blog screams “Subscribe” for its verbal and graphic wit and creativity. Vincent’s submission rose above thousands hundreds tens ones of rivals. So, without [...]

“Joe Jobless already trying McCain economic plan.” A reader last week mentioned this “Wordling Political Speeches” as a NYTimes lesson plan, so I Wordled McCain’s stump speech in Colorado this week. I thought I’d have fun with it by turning it into an open thread for readers to play with. Here are the rules: Write [...]

Can the web help students who, when school is making them feel suicidal, turn to Google for support? I must see five or ten Google search hits like the above each week from students. What advice would you give? Do counselors help? Parents? Teachers? Organizations? Preachers or secular social workers? Early graduation/GED? Home-schooling? Books? Poems? [...]

danah boyd just posted a “request for brain-fodder” from her readers, and I played along by posting the below (or trying to – maybe it’s being moderated, maybe it was spammed, maybe some cyber-Cerberus ate it on the banks of the thread).  It’s a question I’ve been turning over for a while now, and enough [...]

It’s almost 6 p.m. here in Seoul, and that’s bedtime for this nocturne. Before curling up in Morpheus’ arms, I want to throw this screenshot of my Tweetcloud up here (thanks to Cathy Nelson for sharing that one). It’s an interesting little thing, this tag cloud of your most frequent tweet words. The largest words [...]

Short and sweet, that’s the question. I find it fascinating from the angles of psychology and sociology. Lots of talk about “self-promotion” on Twitter around the blog-hood these days. I frankly don’t know what it means. I say as much in this reply to comments on my last post: I also wonder about all the [...]

I’m afraid this will sound presumptuous, when I intend it in the same way as when I ask students to give me feedback to help classes improve. What I’m talking about is this: I’ve been invited to present three sessions at the Shanghai Learning 2.008 Conference next September. What I offer is largely up to [...]

Just sharing another quick writing exercise to follow up on the “titles and introductions” lesson using Alltop, since some writing teachers seemed to appreciate that one. We did this lesson in my PLN/Networked Learning writing elective last week.  So many of my students, after 10+ years of writing in school, were writing post after post [...]

As the title says, short and sweet: What are your favorite blogs for 21st century teaching, by subject matter?  As a classroom teacher myself with a 3/4 teaching load plus unofficial tech coordinator duties for k-12 at my school, I don’t have much time this year to stay abreast of all the great teacher bloggers [...]

I haven’t done an open thread in a while – still chewing on that last one on “designing your dream 1:1 school elective”. But here’s a question that’s been nagging me for a while, and that I’ve wanted to put to as many people out there that will weigh in. Because I can’t tell if [...]