It just occurred to me I’ve been using my Twitterverse to solicit student blogger recommendations for the upcoming student edublog launch on December 1. See this post and especially the conversation thread below it for an idea how this project is taking shape. Some very exciting contributors have already signed on, but if you know [...]

It’s been a heck of a week, and it’s only Wednesday morning. So here are some updates about 1) attempting to inspire a visionary foundation in my students’ approach to blogging (via the “Campsite Seminars” in the woods around our school, as posted about earlier after watching Christian Long‘s segment of Dean Shareski‘s “Design Matters” [...]

Twitter has definitely shifted my networking and online writing habits. A case in point: Since I’m 14 hours ahead of the American east coast, I mentioned how lonely it was to be awake on Twitter when most of my compatriots are asleep. Graham Wegner in Australia, whom I’m recently enjoyed getting to know, answered my [...]

After my semi-literate support technician nuked my entire VPS server – Moodle and WordPress MU, including a year of student blogs from last year – I managed to restore a backup after several scares. So the blogs are saved. Moodle is back. And so is a prototype of the Project Global Cooling website. We’ll give [...]

Prison Exercise Yard: Photo by Jon’s pics Student: “Ms. Stucco says I have to quit Project Global Cooling to go to the Class Council Representative meetings every week.” Me: “And you explained to her you’d been volunteering on this project all summer, that you’re an important player in it, and that it’s community service in [...]

Did I ever mention I’m addicted to weekend blog think-alouds?You might know that last week, Somebody Up There damned me with a colossal – and unheard-of – global Skype failure, ten minutes before my big Google Earth World Skype Tour with educator-experts from around the world. I just re-discovered Google Lit Trips while reading Joe [...]

Colorful eagles, in cages LABELED canariesOriginally uploaded by qwurky. Interesting development on Support Blogging’s listing of edublogs: the list of individual student bloggers is growing. I’ve been banging this little drum for months about this (most recently on a comment on Scott McLeod’s “Top Edublogs” post – and see the afternote for Scott’s awesome response*), [...]

I just spent an hour watching the closing keynote address at NECC ’07 by Dr. Tim Tyson, principal of Mabry Middle School. The engaged filmmaking by the Mabry Middle School students is “world-changing,” literally. One example among many, from watching these students’ short films: I won’t buy chocolate – or anything else, for that matter [...]

Working on this project is fun. No teacher, no students, just a fledgling community. No grades involved. Funny how different that feels. Here’s a silly video in which we recap our goals for next week’s “working meeting”: Find more videos like this on The Global Cooling Collective

“See, Hear, Speak No Evil” by AndyRamdin on Flickr [Update: This post is extends a critique of my own teaching, and typical schooling in general, that I wrote last week in "I'm Nobody. Goodbye to All of That." Makes sense to start there, if you haven't read it already.] I have a headache and a [...]