Reflection 2.0

You can see the published google spreadsheet from this survey here - Education Blocked Web Applications. The response wasn’t as high as I expected it would be, but it did give a small-scale picture of the situation. Rather than immediately throw my beliefs and theories at you, I ask this:
What are the educational implications of […]

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As I wrote in my post a few days ago, I am starting over on my attempt to teach basic wiki (web editing/content creation) concepts (replacing Powerpoint - my choice) to my 6th graders. I rotate groups every 10 days (50 min. each day, 30 of which need to be spent typing), so I’ve been […]

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Here are updates on recent posts and issues for your reading and research pleasure!
Change on Filter/Blocks Survey
I’d chalk it up to a rookie mistake, but there’s really no excuse for my K-12, US-centric approach to my survey when I initially created it. I was called out on it multiple times and have made appropriate […]

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Can you tell I’m in love with Google forms?
I’m collecting data on the range of sites blocked at schools for educators and I would greatly appreciate it if you could take a minute or two and fill out my survey (seriously, REALLY easy and fast!). All you need to do is click on the link […]

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I’m trying something new (yet again) and have created a forum here called Ask Kate. Head on over and check it out - you can give me your feedback there or in a comment here, or take the time to use the forum to ask a question - that’s what it’s there for!
Why a forum? I’ve explained it all […]

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Wiktionary describes savior as:

I don’t know if I can actually say I was in physical harm’s way, but the threat of tearing out my own hair was imminent, as was the danger of throwing my laptop out the window. I’ll post more on my journey with hosting WordPress on GoDaddy and my habit of taking […]

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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 […]

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What is this, an advertising blog? Sorry for the blatant ed- promotions tonight, just all kinds of great stuff to see and share! I was able to wrangle an opportunity to view edmodo (alpha) tonight (due to my wonderful disposition, I’m sure……..or Jeff O’Hara got annoyed that I was so blatantly promoting @edublogs, teehee - you […]

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Ok, this is really only breaking news because I want to take credit for convincing James to do this :-) All you need to do is follow @edublogs to get all the latest and greatest news on our favorite edublogger platform! So, play along and let’s show the power of the edublogger/twitter network………………..
On a side note, […]

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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 […]

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