First, a mini-photo essay on my own point of view about privileging writing over speaking when grading in the collaborative, networking, multimedia century:
Three weeks after the Diigo stampede, I’ve been concerned that the new trend of putting Diigo annotations on posts instead of leaving comments in the thread was a negative thing. Only Diigo […]
I’ve been up all night catching up on my reading, which these days means feed-reading, more than anything.
Two that struck a chord:
1. That LearnerBlogosphere Idea
Sylvia Martinez on the red-hot GenYES blog writes several posts about getting teens to use Web 2.0 independently - like we adult edubloggers do - to develop their literacy skills in […]
I’m catching up on grading and assessing on my AP Literature Ning - that’s where most assignments are posted, so student-people can see each others’ work, and my replies to everybody, not just to them - and was wowed by JungHee.
How? I assigned Keats‘ stunning last sonnet, “Bright Star, Would I were Stedfast as Thou […]
Stephen Downes (top) trounced me (bottom) with a 98.98. He is King. (Nice new ‘do, Stephen!):
Diane Cordell (below: top) gave the testers a 180-degree ankle-wrench for misspelling “population” in their results:
And Doug Noon (bottom) “flipped the goat- sucker” with his question: “What is ’smart,’ anway?”:
I thought about Doug’s question myself after taking the […]
Here’s one more tutorial, 4 minutes, on using Diigo on Scribe blogs as test review sheets, with students as members of a Diigo Group. I just trained my students today in AP Lit, set them up on the class Diigo Group, and “shared” my highlights and annotations of the class scribe posts (it only […]
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Clay Burell:
Chattanooga - Los Angeles - Eugene, OR - Wuerzburg, Germany - Shanghai, China - Seoul, Korea over 40-odd years. English, History, and ESOL teacher-geek. Apple Distinguished Educator. I hate schooliness. I love learning.
I started Beyond School on Blogger on 1 Jan. 2007. Out of love for WordPress, I divorced Blogger on 20 October 2007 to self-host here. Thanks for coming by.
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