If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Carolyn Foote wrote this week about the new Pew study on the effects of technology on teen writing. An article about the study in eSchool News (free subscription – well worth it – required) pulls out a few details [...]
Archives for posts tagged ‘writing’
A Maxim: On Retarding Institutions
Thursday, 10 January 2008
Video on The Benefits of Co-Teaching: A Blast from 2005
Friday, 4 January 2008
I don’t discuss my years as an English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL, a.k.a. ESL) specialist much on these pages, mainly because there are no ESOL students at my high school. But the experience of being a second teacher in the content-area classroom when I wore this hat? That’s some good fodder for thinking [...]
A Belated Reflection on the Students 2.0 Experience
Saturday, 29 December 2007
If you haven’t read Ryan Bretag‘s and Steve Hargadon‘s posts on TechLearning about Students 2.0, they’re worth a read. And Steve’s podcast interview with Kevin, Sean, and Lindsey shows them at their wonderful best, in terms of both intelligence and personality. I haven’t really written any reflections here since launching Students 2.0 back on December [...]
From “LeaderTalk” to “LearnerTalk”: Global Student Edublog Coming Soon, Seeks Your Input
Tuesday, 13 November 2007
“That’s not Homework; That’s Writing”: Authentic Student Blogging (Presentation Snippet 2)
Saturday, 10 November 2007
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 [...]
Two Heretical Posts from a Good Student Blog
Friday, 9 November 2007
JoonPyo, whether he realizes it or not, gives Sam Harris some competition with his “God Did It” post, in which he constructs a decent hypothesis on the historical and psychological origins of religion, and its survival in the world today. Nice style, nice argument, though no connectivism with other writers, which damns this fine post [...]
Blogging Parent Letter: Choose Your Privacy Levels
Friday, 9 November 2007
Since this is a perennial issue, I’m sharing this letter to parents about our student blogging launch in my AP Literature class. It’s important to realize that this approach is tailored to the age group of my 17-year-old seniors. They’ll be considered adults in a few short months, so I designed this parent approach with [...]
More on Visionary Student Blogging: Does Shana See It?
Friday, 2 November 2007
The Long Preface: “A teacher is only as good as his students.” That’s how I prefaced my little “beginning to blog to the world” pep talk to my Advanced Placement Literature seniors. I already posted about the “Walden 2.0” idea – a grandiose name, granted, for a simple escape into the woods to film our [...]
Visionary Student Blogging: or, The Ghost in the Machine
Wednesday, 31 October 2007
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” [...]






