Posted in Blogging, WordPress on Apr 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Well, the title says it all!
This is the last post on Reflection 2.0 and I’m moving to my new home at Kate Says – my brand new site powered by self-hosted Wordpress 2.5. I have loved being on edublogs, but as I’m getting more and more involved with Wordpress in other professional projects I decided [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Teaching on Mar 1st, 2008 18 Comments »
Background: I received an email today from a student about her new blog she created, her love of technology, and asking for advice on her blog. I responded to her, because it’s polite and I want to encourage her. I then tweeted how happy I was that a student was inspired by classroom blogging, which [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Teaching, Tools on Feb 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
Rookie mistakes – live and learn. That’s the story of my day! I started out with my wiki project this morning and quickly encountered a MAJOR problem that I should have been aware of. No excuses, I should have researched this more fully before embarking on the project. I had the entire class (in 9 groups) [...]
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Posted in Blogging, Teaching on Feb 24th, 2008 2 Comments »
In my post last week about teacher training here in the U.S. and abroad, I quoted a TIME magazine article about practices in Singapore. One of my readers, John Larkin, made these excellent comments on the post:
“Hi Kate
I once taught part time at Singapore’s National Institute of Education after work at Nanyang Technological University. I [...]
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I have been asked on twitter and various other places for links to this and links to that, and I just thought I’d make it easier for those of you who wish to follow my research on blogging, social networking, and other web tools. I don’t always have time to blog about the information I [...]
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Ok, here’s something I learned this weekend that is going to make my life MUCH easier when composing and editing blog posts and anything in moodle. (Very possible that everyone else in the world already knew this and I’m the last to know, but that’s ok. We all have to learn sometime!) Thanks much to [...]
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