Just saw this on Crooks and Liars, and think it’s worth sharing to teachers and students alike. Ira Glass, radio host of This American Life on (the USA’s) National Public Radio, shares how expectations - our own, and others’ - shouldn’t be too high for our media creations, because “it takes years” to bridge the […]
[Welcome to Beyond School’s new home, by the way. This is my first post since leaving Blogger. If you subscribed to the old “BS,” please update your feed by subscribing to this new home on my own WordPress install. I’m excited to learn more about customizing WordPress by administering my own blog. You […]
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 […]
Awake and refreshed now. Neurons still firing from a heady mental cocktail blending the Shanghai Learning 2.0 Conference, my RSS subscription to Crooks and Liars (my favorite political blog), the creative potential of iLife for student-people and teacher-people alike and, five minutes ago, a dash of eureka inspired by reader comments to a week-old […]
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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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