I recently presented a session on using blogs and wikis in the classroom at the annual GISA conference. I focused on teacher and student-created and maintained blogs and wikis and didn’t touch very much on how we can learn from these tools. When I share my presentation with my own faculty in January, I would…
One of the things I like about the Reflective Teacher is that he posts frequently and honestly about his classroom — what works and what doesn’t. He shares his ideas. I think more than many education bloggers, he really treats the edublogosphere like a faculty lounge. Frankly, I think too many folks are in such…
I presented my session on using blogs and wikis in the classroom at GISA’s conference last Monday. I think it went OK, but it might have gone better. I was glad it was in a computer lab. I do think the materials I handed out were first rate, but I was feeling sick, so perhaps…
As I have previously mentioned, I am presenting a session on using blogs and wikis in the classroom at the GISA conference this fall. I was reading through the descriptions of the afternoon sessions (mine is a morning session) so I could decide what to take, and I was more than a little dismayed to…
I spent one week in Charlotte, five full days, in the Schools Attuned Subject Specialist course. I need to complete a practicum and portfolio in order to earn CEU credit, which will be quite a few credits. Plus, I can do this online, so that works out great. My first thought on completing the course…
I returned from a Schools Attuned workshop in Charlotte, NC. about four hours ago. I’m really tired from so much learning, thinking, and traveling. I missed my family. However, look for my posts about what I learned and hope to be able to take away.
I am going out of town tomorrow with two colleagues to a Schools Attuned workshop in Charlotte, NC. I will be gone for a whole week. I will have a laptop with me, so I will be able to keep up a little bit, I think, but I don’t know for sure how much time…
As Liz pointed out in my comments, One of the difficulties of the Schools Attuned approach is that it does not map directly onto [IDEA] [NCLB] [DSM-IV-TR] (pick your poison). As a parent of a child with a specific learning disability, I think that Levine’s approach is more beneficial for the child — but the…
Reading: You should have received a copy of Dr. Mel Levine’s A Mind at a Time in your course Prep-Packet. Please read Chapter 2 “The Ways of Learning”, Chapter 5, “Ways with Words: Our Language System” and Chapter 8, “Some Peeks at a Mind’s Peaks: Our Higher Thinking System.” Well, that’s one required chapter down….
I am going to work on restoring some posts that were on my blog before my old host went down. If you subscribe via Bloglines or another RSS reader, you might be wondering what’s going on as those old posts appear; those of you who visit directly probably won’t notice anything unusual. As promised, here…
