Posted in Education on Aug 12th, 2008 No Comments »
This is cross-posted at my VSTE Ning Blog.
Obe Hostetter’s email to the VSTE ITRT Listserv got me to thinking (nice job Obe!). He shares some fantastic resources that all of us can use as we start this school year, that is for sure.
The question that I’ve been wondering about, after reading his email, is what [...]
Posted in Education, Heart on Aug 5th, 2008 No Comments »
The Random Thoughts of Louis Schmier
Should teaching be any different? It takes a lot of work to live, care, and love; it is a lot of work to reflect, articulate, imagine, devise, activate; it is a lot of work to prepare, design, deliver, evaluate to what extent it worked or needs reworking; it is a [...]
Posted in Education, Reading, Web 2.0 on Aug 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
It’s Time to Reboot America. | Rebooting America
This came via dana boyd’s blog and I’ve started reading the introduction. What I think about in terms of this book (which can be downloaded here as a pdf file) is that it is our students that will continue to have the chance to change the way our [...]
Posted in Education, Tools To Use on Jul 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Earthquake strongly jolts ‘lucky’ Los Angeles | Reuters
The image above is of a seismograph reading and today there was a magnitude 5.4 earthquake in the Southern California region. I was reading about it this evening online when I came across an article that talked about Twitter being a “news wire.” Hmmm . . .there are [...]
Posted in Education, Heart on Jul 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Bridging Differences: The Purpose of Small Schools
Small schools are an attempt to re-create, intentionally, the best of the family dinner table, the town meeting, the public square, the legislative process, the team, and the academy of thinkers—with as much of the diversity of the larger community as we can corral all in one manageable place.
This [...]
Posted in Education, Reading on Jul 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
Literacy Debate - Online, R U Really Reading? - Series - NYTimes.com
The above linked article is well worth the read. Will Richardson blogged about this article, which is how I found it. I found his blog post via Twitter, for those who are interested.
Some of my thoughts, briefly tonight, are that reading and literacy need [...]
Posted in Blogging, Education on Jul 21st, 2008 No Comments »
Ideas and Thoughts from an EdTech » Blog Archive » Student and Teacher Blogging that Succeeds
Blogging is way more about reading than it is writing.
Dean hits the nail on the head with this one. Great post on what makes blogging succeed with students and teachers. Read it. Plus check out some excellent student blogs [...]
Posted in Blogging, Education, Heart on Jul 18th, 2008 2 Comments »
Man, my head is going to explode I think. This summer has been full of ___________ . I’ve had some fantastic discussion on my PBS Teacherline training discussion board and am enjoying some great emails with John Hendron about this whole thing called educational technology, standards, and professional development. Perhaps for the first time I [...]
Posted in Education, Tools To Use on Jul 16th, 2008 No Comments »
Google Docs Templates
the googles do it again! some good stuff here. as they say:
share and enjoy!
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Posted in Blogging, Education on Jul 13th, 2008 No Comments »
http://blog.mrmeyer.com/
no specific comments yet, but i like this blog. i just like it.
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