New EdBloggers

Over the last week or so I’ve come across a few new edbloggers who are writing, thinking and doing in ways that have pushed my own thinking…which is the best part of the Read/Write Web, the finding new teachers part.

First off is Konrad Glogowski who is writing the “Blog of Proximal Development.” He is a writing and media teacher in Ontario, I believe, and he’s been blogging since February but has already covered some pretty heady ground with his students. I like his first post:

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Blogging Your Education

So Barbara has anotheranother great post up, writing about how her students are changing in their expectations and needs from their time in college. They are pushing against the traditional structures, asking to mix the classroom experience with online community and off campus travel, capturing all of it in their Weblogs with the voices of teachers and mentors and loved ones mixed in. I love that image…seriously love it…the reflective, interactive chronicling of learning. The getting it down, capturing the experience if for no other reason than to acknowledge it, and to help it take root. That is one of the reasons I maintain this space, to make the learning stick in my brain by articulating it in writing. It’s one thing to nod your head as you read or listen, but it’s another entirely to write it, especially for an audience.

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Journalism Will Survive the Death of Its Institutions

I love this statement: Journalism Will Survive the Death of Its Institutions: "When our central institutions blew up, people asked many of the same questions I hear among journalists today. Without these institutions, who will fund the mission? How will we attract the talent we need to make the transition? Just as journalism without newspapers seems inconceivable now, it seemed inconceivable to many then that innovation could continue without the might, resources, and sheer heft of the companies that formed the core of the high tech industry."

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Farm fresh, but at school

Farm fresh, but at school Kids get a taste of locally grown produceBy KAREN HERZOG
kherzog@journalsentinel.comPosted: Oct. 6, 2007

Mount Horeb - School kids in this rural community have something in common with one of America's most celebrated chefs, Rick Bayless.

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RUSD leads in expelling black students

RUSD leads in expelling black students District tops state in suspensions, posts high U.S. ratesBy DANI McCLAIN
dmcclain@journalsentinel.comPosted: Oct. 6, 2007

Reflecting the results of a national study, the Racine Unified School District has a high rate, as does the state, of suspensions and expulsions of African-American students.

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