Tag Archives: language arts

My Suicidal High School Years: A Happy-Ending Bullying Story

December 17, 2007 – 12:44 am

[Update 2: I’ve copied Stephen Downes’ comments about this post, and my own response to them, in the comments, if anybody is interested.]
[Update: I’ve added the podcast to my Teaching Gallery page, in case you come across a student who might benefit by listening in the future.]
I was bullied for two years in high […]

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From the Classroom Blogging Doldrums: What Would Teacher 2.0 Do?

November 17, 2007 – 11:28 am

Sometimes you just want to give up. Instead, I’ll go transparent and see what ideas, counsels, or commiserations come from sharing.
It’s about the “Visionary Student Blogging” connective writing project.
The problem? Little vision, little connective writing.
It’s partly senioritis, I think. College applications, SAT’s, too many commitments to too many extra-curricular activities (got […]

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“Blogger-Training School” for a Student “Blogging License”: A Silver Bullet?

November 12, 2007 – 12:28 am

The conversation about managing real student blogging - public, connective, prudent, real-world network-seeking - continues in the comments to my last post. Again, for RSS folks, not to be missed if this is a concern of yours. So I’m again posting the latest round of comments here. Doug Noon starts with a good […]

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Another Comments Thread Worth Sharing: Grappling with the Big Questions on Classroom Blogging Policy

November 10, 2007 – 8:33 pm

Wow. It’s been a heady 24 hours. My site went down on Friday night around 10pm, and at midnight my neighborhood lost internet service. When I woke this morning, it was still down. It came on at 11 a.m., and I had a new experience: my Blogging Parent Letter: Choose Your Privacy […]

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“That’s not Homework; That’s Writing”: Authentic Student Blogging (Presentation Snippet 2)

November 10, 2007 – 12:32 pm

In a post last month I mentioned seeing the need for short video presentations about web 2.0 in education, and posted a snippet from a parent presentation I gave at our 1:1 Apple Laptop School launch. That snippet focused only on the motivational power of a simple ClustrMap on a blog.
Here’s another one: Less […]

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