Tag Archives: collaboration

Many Voices: A Global Creative Writing Twittory for K-8 Worth Joining

In the depths of New York City, on top of the Empire State Building, a creature rested. That creature was me….

I’m moved to plug Many Voices, a Twitter creative writing global collaboration (ages 5-13?) created by George Mayo in Washington, D.C.
The more I think about it, the more brilliant it is. [Update: […]

Open Thread 2: Your Dream Elective Class for a 1:1 High School?

This isn’t theoretical - necessarily. It could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship.
Given a 1:1 MacBook school, a geeky teacher, no bandwidth or filtering or blocking restrictions, how would you design an elective class to showcase 21st century learning possibilities?
I’ve got an elective “writing seminar” beginning next week, with about ten students from age […]

My Traveler’s Map at 45

Reading a post by NJ Tech Teacher (we tweet) that aligned with the Traveler IQ test from the post below prompted me to post my own World 66 maps. A little more yuletide fluff.
I didn’t leave the US until the Army helped me escape in ‘98. But while in the States, I had […]

2007: The Year of Creativity - Let’s End with a Holiday Twittory!

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 […]

Blogging for Quality: Towards an Authentic Blogging Pedagogy

I’m still working out the ideas I got from watching Dean Shareski’s “Design Matters” K12 Online Conference presentation. I just applied the idea of quality design principles to an evaluative rubric called, “Why Do We Subscribe to Bloggers’ Blogs? Quality, Quality, Quality - 21st Century Style: A Guide for Secondary and University […]