Entries from November 2007

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

What’s In a Name?

I’m playing around with a title change for this blog. Why? Because the old one was as exciting and creative as one of those insurance meetings we have to attend at the beginning of the school year. If you hate the new one, please feel free to let me know–it is a work in progress.

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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Good Start for Class Blog

I wanted to share this new class blog–Science Today. It’s by my geeky science teacher friend, Whitney Isbell. She set the blog up to allow randomly selected students to craft a daily summary of the goings-on in class. We had a couple of hiccups trying to set up student email and accounts. The biggest stumbling [...]

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Want to See the Possibilities of Blogging?

Be sure to visit the nominees for Edublogs 2007 blogs/wikis of the year. You’ll see a great variety of applications of these technologies that may inspire you!

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Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Santa Blogging!

Here is a nice little Santa blog our district’s students will be reading and responding to–nice way to get young students familiar with a blog!
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Suffering from Technology?

A recent article in the Berkshire Eagle demonstrates, yet again, that many educators, while recognizing the important contributions of technology to student learning, still hold it in a form of contempt as a distraction and deterrence to the educational process. The article is boldly titled “The student suffers from technology,” and it recounts the struggles [...]

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

The Problem with RSS

At an early family Thanksgiving gathering this past Sunday, a familiar issue came up. I mentioned RSS, and I was met with a unanimously blank stare. My family had zero familiarity with the concept whatsoever. This has also been the case with far too many teachers that I encounter. An example was my presentation at [...]