So today this blog turned 2 years old … somehow it seems older, but March 5, 2006, was the first post. To mark that occasion I am re-posting that first post. Learning is messy!
Why Field Trips, Technology and Project Based Learning?
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The Go4it and Media Education Festival Radio Project has kicked off in style, and the first week's broadcasts are now complete. Young people from across Edinburgh were helped to produce their own radio broadcasts, featuring reviews of Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows, and interviews with performers and audience members.
The completed broadcasts are now ready for download - click here to get your copies!
The young people were also asked to put pen to paper with their written reviews of every show they saw during the week. A selection of the best ones can be viewed here.
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Last Friday I met again with Miss Neville’s second graders. They didn’t get to answer follow-up comments they had received because they were busy posting introductions. We wished we could do this for the whole day but unfortunately that couldn’t be. Miss Neville and I talked as they wrote. We decided that we’d use the class blog for them to post. We posted them under Miss Neville’s name and decided that we would label future posts from the students themselves in this manner:
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Important things to know about acid/base balance in the human body FOR THE MCAT:
The buffer system you need to know: HCO3-/CO2 (think HCO3- = base and CO2 = acid)
Chemical equation: H+ + HCO3- = H2CO3 = CO2 + H2O (imagine the equilibria arrows)
The lungs independently control CO2 (fast response – minutes to hours) while the kidneys independently control HCO3- (slow response – hours to days).
Physiologic pH: 7.4
Tags: Blood, ControlledSo today is a sad day as I’ve decided to drop Alan Levine and Tim Lauer from my Bloglines blogroll. (Sorry guys.) Their blog feeds have just become, I dunno, so one-dimensional. Sure, they’re both writing about great stuff and linking to cool tools. But I just feels like I’m missing something…
The fix? Now I’m subscribed to Tim and Alan’s SuprGlu sites. In one feed, I get their blog posts, any links they post to del.icio.us, their Flickr photos and more. And actually, while the feed uptake is a little slower, I’m liking this a lot more. These are people whose ideas and links I trust, and I love being able to follow their practice and beyond the blog more deeply and easily. In fact, I’d love it if more of my nucleus of trusted teachers would do the same.
Tags: Sources, Suprglu, TrustedWesley Fryer has written an article on Skype in the Classroom. It was published in TechEdge, the quarterly magazine of the Texas Computer Education. On his blog he notes his beginning and concluding thoughts:
Beginning thoughts:
Internet connectivity in educational settings provides opportunities
for interactive exchange and collaboration between students living on
other sides of town or the other side of the planet. These synchronous,
Tags: Classroom, SkypeI really hate not being at NECC and
sharing the excitement but the blogging and everything else that is
going on is incredible. Wow! I am having trouble keeping up with all
the good things. Craig gave a great report about Bernie Dodge’s QuestGarden which I can’t wait to use. The one I made for my blogging group disappeared from TeacherWeb.,
Steve is doing a fantastic job of blogging about so many different
Tags: cant, thereMPS graduation rate is 46%, study says District disagrees, but it lags suburbsBy ALAN J. BORSUK
aborsuk@journalsentinel.comPosted: April 1, 2008
Milwaukee Public Schools was one of 17 urban districts listed with a graduation rate below 50% in a report released Tuesday by America's Promise Alliance, an organization aimed at promoting solutions to problems affecting America's youth.
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It’s nice to see Jo McLeay’s good work spotlighted on an article entitled The worldwide classroom in The Age.com
Quotes from the article:
Her blog, The Open Classroom, seeks to construct “an identity in the blogosphere while reflecting on learning and teaching and technology”.
“People comment and join in the discussion - it is like the conversations you would have in the staff room or at a teachers’ conference but these are with professionals from all over the world. It is a wonderful resource,” Ms McLeay says.
Tags: Classroom, worldwideVia Green Chameleon, I came across Nathan’s blog post on his project methodology of Clarify, Simplify, Implement - great advice, and so simple. Later in the same post, Nathan gives some more advice that should have anyone in the training business questioning their value proposition:
Zero training
Every user is time poor. They have no interest or time for attending training sessions. Training is the first and biggest hurdle to adoption of your new system and process. While complexity exists and training is required, users can always reject or work around the process with a politically acceptable excuse - “It’s too hard”.
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