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lsink@journalsentinel.comPosted: May 9, 2008
Brookfield - Incoming a folk discipline art discussion isn't something sixth-grader Brynna Conway would control jumped to do.
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Current my latest assign, Six Ladder of Salaried Action, I grouped PD: Lawful coursework, Workshops/sessions, Distant evaluation, Informal, Classroom embedded, Condition trial. Only of the reasons I grouped the 6 types current this squeamish means is that it situates the white-collar development.
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Tags: Development, Professional, SituatingAlthough I make a point in writing for GoldenSwamp.com not to use this as a political pulpit, this morning I cannot resist commenting on the Presidential Primaries. It was actually reading a New York Times story about President Bush’s State of the Union address that prompted this post. Called “Camelot ‘08 Overshadows Bush Speech,” the story included these observations of the President’s attitude:
There was nothing mournful or valedictory about Mr. Bush’s delivery of his seventh State of the Union address, a speech that acknowledged, however briefly, that the economy is in trouble. Mr. Bush, looking fresh and rested, made a point of sounding good-humored as he delivered less-than-glowing news.
Tags: MorningThere have been a spate of posts of late that talk about the role of technology in general and Web 2.0 technologies specifically in the classroom and also about the larger question of the acceptance of technology in general as a teaching and learning tool. Not surprising, is it, that these threads would pop up as school begins, at least here in the Western World.
Jeff Utecht started by writing about “Transition Techies” and lamenting the fact that technology is still seen as an option to most educators, not a requirement.
Tags: Meet, SpaceAs I have been working to create UbD plans over the last couple of days, a couple of things have become glaringly obvious to me.
The first is that the quality of available study guides and teachers’ guides varies widely. Most of them only have a handful of “good” lesson plans. What I mean by “good” is that I can use the plans without too much modification for my students, it is sufficiently challenging for high school, and it doesn’t involve too much of what I think of as “fluffy” work. I am totally all for using what I can without reinventing the wheel. My English Education professors encouraged us to steal, steal, steal. This was back in the day when listservs were well-populated and would have been great for teachers to share ideas, but teachers weren’t on them, and it was well before the age of blogs, wikis, webquests, etc. Our best source for ideas, if I recall, was ERIC. I had to create entire units by myself, stealing where I could, but mostly finding I had to buy anything that was really helpful (Perfection Learning units, Shakespeare Set Free, Novel Guides, etc.) It was a pain, and I envy new teachers for the fact that they have access to the Internet with this wealth of ideas. It must be much easier to create plans now than it used to be.
Tags: Caveat, Emptor, free, UnlessI belief that affair top-down software was a stuff of the erstwhile added that tiny dregs loosely married was the modern example, on the other hand I’ve been fashionable book-learning gangsters with the addition of a people of exercise stage that uses the walled grounds figure of speech to the extreme.
Christopher Sessums refers to Ooze Shirky’s letter newest Here Comes Everyone, that “Communication mechanism don’t obtain socially watery colourful until they pay for technologically boring” . Christopher adds:
Tags: Boring, GoodMany of my students feel a strong connection to Israel and have visited Israel at least once. Some of my students are Israeli. When an opportunity for my students to work with students in Israel on a “flat classroom” type of project, I jumped at the chance. I am pleased to introduce you to our project, which I am calling “Faces of Judaism.” Together with the Neveh Channah Torah High School for Girls, my students at the Weber School are exploring their Jewish identity through writing. Some questions guiding our exploration:
Tags: Flat, JudaismThis isn’t as scientific as I’d like, but given the amount of comments I received and the pool of books selected in those comments, coupled with informal polls offline, I have cobbled together a list of twenty books America can’t live without, in no particular order. Here’s where you come in. Let’s put them order. Vote for your top five in the comments. I will tally the votes and rank the books from 1-20.
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter series by J.K. RowlingThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Collected Works of William Shakespeare by William ShakespeareThe BibleThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Once and Future King by T.H. WhiteSlaughterhouse Five by Kurt VonnegutStranger in a Strange Land by Robert HeinleinDracula by Bram StokerThe Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor by Flannery O’ConnorThe Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan PoeFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckBrave New World by Aldous Huxley
Tags: America, Books, cant, live, Vote, withoutThe biggest news in the blogosphere today seems to be that the number one blog in the Technorati 100 is now the 老徐 徐静蕾 新浪BLOG from China written by Xu Jing Lei, replacing Boing Boing. Couple that with the information in the latest report by Dave Sifry that less than 1/3 of the blogosphere is now written in English and it’s hard not to be impressed by the global reach of the Web. It’s pretty amazing and inspiring. Now I know that we’re still talking about a comparatively few actual content creators instead of just content consumers. If my math is right, 40,000,000 bloggers/1,000,000,000 Web users is 4%, right? If the trends continue, however, we’re going to have more and more international voices entering the conversation.
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This is the third part of a series of blog posts inspired by the book, Meaningful Learning Using Technology: What Educators Need to Know And Doby Elizabeth Alexander Ashburn (Editor), Robert E. Floden (Editor) (Amazon link) and specifically a chapter Fostering Meaningful Teaching and Learning with Technology: Characteristics of Effective Professional Development written by Yong Zhao, Kenneth Frank, and Nicole Ellefson of Michigan State University Michigan State University (MSU).
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