Posted in Ramblings, Teaching on Mar 11th, 2008 9 Comments »
I know this won’t be popular, but isn’t there some value to “because I said so” as a response to a question? As a parent? As a teacher? As a boss? I know all the stuff out there on giving reasons for everything and respecting roles and setting the tone for respect, but isn’t there [...]
Posted in Keyboarding, Social Networks, Teaching, Uncategorized on Mar 11th, 2008 2 Comments »
Note: images below not live links
If Facebook can make Scrabble (Scrabulous) cool, why not keyboarding? I’ve discovered that 2 of my favorite keyboarding activities can be added as Facebook apps……………one step forward for the cool factor of business ed, right? Well, probably not, but this geeky teacher can dream, right?
Check out Fingerjig and Typing Master for some [...]
Posted in Blogging, Teaching on Mar 9th, 2008 2 Comments »
I had a great conversation with a blogging ‘colleague’ of mine (Taylor) the other day about the complexities of online communication. The conversation started after we both were confused/concerned about comments made or posts written about us or things we had written - we started direct messaging on twitter to see how best to interpret the [...]
Posted in Teaching, Tools on Mar 7th, 2008 9 Comments »
I was just presented with a very interesting student/wiki situation via chat with an undisclosed friend - what are your thoughts on this?
***: i’ll have to to tell you about the wiki-disaster in 7th grade
me: WHAT?
***: xxx’s student teacher made a social studies wiki…
each kid got user name
me: wikispaces?
****: and they started emailing stupid [...]
Posted in Teaching, Tools on Mar 6th, 2008 6 Comments »
This morning I was contacted by a reader via the chat feature on my blog and he then emailed me the following questions. I told him the best place to get this information is from the vast edtech network, so here it is. I’m throwing this one out to my readers - please help this [...]
Posted in Teaching on Mar 5th, 2008 12 Comments »
Note: I really try to avoid rants on here, but I can’t help it - bear with me and we’ll be back to regularly scheduled cheery, helpful posts in no time at all……………..
During a 4th grade class today, a colleague who is also a mother of 2 of my students (in the district, but not [...]
Posted in Keyboarding, Teaching on Mar 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
My 6th grade keyboarding students get so frustrated with me when I introduce this activity because it actually makes them THINK, which is usually unheard of in traditional keyboarding practice I don’t need to go into the research about keyboarding skills being developed best through drill and practice, consistent time on the keyboard, and [...]
Posted in Research, Teaching, books on Mar 5th, 2008 No Comments »
Ken Rodoff commented on my post yesterday with a recommendation for M. T. Anderson’s “Feed”:
Ken wrote:
“…….if you’re looking for a raw take on our tech-infused adolescents, grab yourself a copy of M.T. Anderson’s ‘Feed’. It’s YA, but it’s worth noting that it has a lot of vulgarity. Makes a nice companion piece for a unit [...]
Posted in Teaching on Mar 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
I had the pleasure this morning of getting to sit in the school library and read with 2 classes of students. Our LMC director organized reading time for all language arts classes for a celebration of Dr. Seuss’ birthday and I happened to have some free time so I could join in. I grabbed a [...]
Posted in Blogging, Social Networks, Teaching, Tools, twitter on Mar 3rd, 2008 4 Comments »
I honestly had to turn my computer back on to write this post - I’d already signed off, made my popcorn, and was ready to settle in for some reading before going to bed, but just had to get this post out of my head! Yup, I’m THAT person.
Anyway, the last blog post I read [...]
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