Scot Aldred asks how I assessed projects like the Broken World Wiki textbook, and I tell him I haven’t the foggiest idea. It was too long ago. More to the point, he notes that since I said in my Australia keynote that whatever I did at that time led to burnout, the better question is, [...]
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Blogging to Learn and Questions of Standards: A Dialogue
Monday, 27 October 2008
My Wikispaces in Education Webinar Presentation Video is Up
Friday, 24 October 2008
Last week, Wikispaces invited me to give a Wikispaces in Education Webinar about four wiki projects I’ve done in high school English and history classes: The Broken World Wiki Textbook, a student-made textbook of modern world history from WW1 to WW2, featuring text, images, and embedded videos and student video lectures (and linked to a [...]
Join Me in Wikispaces’ First “Wikis in Education” Webinar Thursday Oct. 16
Wednesday, 15 October 2008
Podcast: Three Schools Discover the 21st Century!
Saturday, 22 March 2008
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 [...]
How I Came To Blog: ‘Talking Story’ As Integration (Guest-blogger Chris Watson)
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
[Note: "Talking Story" is an expression we use in Hawaii to set the tone for a conversation. Instead of focusing on solving a problem, coming to a conclusion, or debating an issue, talking story means to share experiences and anecdotes that relate to the issue at hand. I think it's an appropriate expression for web [...]
2007: The Year of Creativity – Let’s End with a Holiday Twittory!
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Tis the season to be jolly. We only live once, so let’s end this most amazing year with some well-crafted, twitterary prose. Don’t know what a Twittory is? Yet another amazing OZucator, Mike Seyfang, turned me on to this with his most excellent post today (from his most explosively creative edublog), in which he writes: [...]
Create 1:1 Envy and Open Network Envy in Your Admin: Show Them My School’s 1:1 Promo Movie
Saturday, 13 October 2007
Promote Your Active Student Bloggers: YoungWriter07 Wiki
Saturday, 13 October 2007
Twitter has definitely shifted my networking and online writing habits. A case in point: Since I’m 14 hours ahead of the American east coast, I mentioned how lonely it was to be awake on Twitter when most of my compatriots are asleep. Graham Wegner in Australia, whom I’m recently enjoyed getting to know, answered my [...]
Open Invitation to Join the Conversation at Our AP Literature Ning
Friday, 5 October 2007
Last week, I mentioned reading Jeff Wasserman’s post about how schools teach bad writing (the 5-Paragraph Essay and other abominations). I mentioned how it made me “want to make my AP Lit class Ning public. We’re having forum discussions about Organic Form v. Mechanical.” The more I thought about atomizing those Ning walls and welcoming [...]






