Tag Archives: reading

Dean’s “Design Matters” - to My Walden 2.0 Project

[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 […]

How They Do Surprise Us, These People We Call Students

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 […]

On Saving Poetry from "Schooletry" - with ToonDo

[Update: By the way, the student comments in the first panel are quoted from our class Ning. So are my comments in the following two panels. I’m not making this up.]
Thanks to Diane Cordell, librarian/educator and word- and image-smith extroardinaire, for inspiring me to take my first stab at ToonDo. True to […]

Using Screencast-o-matic to Deliver AP Literature Lessons

I really love Screencast-o-matic (SOM), the free, web-based screencast creator. I’ve been using it to make short edtech tutorials for teachers (who aren’t using them, of course) for the last week. But this Saturday morning, I used it for my students in AP Literature.
A few days ago, I had them do a timed […]

Pageflakes Magic, Will Richardson Ditto, Doug on "Controversy" instead of "Indoctrination"

Pageflakes - your free student and teacher start page

I am a complete idiot for not reading Will Richardson religiously. Pageflakes for students and teachers is powerful stuff. - post by cburell

Weblogg-ed ยป Using Pageflakes as Student Portal

A gem from Will Richardson on classroom use of Pageflakes. I see a migration coming. - post […]