Browsing articles from "November, 2007"
11.30.07
Cores 1-4:
- Take the spelling bee written exam.
Cores 1+4:
- Discuss your second multi-cultural novel using the handout as a guide.
- Extensions:
- Write out a few thesis statements that you think will work for your second essay, so that we can check them on Monday.
Core 2:
- Watch Save Darfur video for another school’s social action project.
- What actions did they take for their action plan?
- What actions are you planning on taking for your SAP?
- Extensions:
- Finish your Identify the Problem paragraph.
Core 3:
- Take MOV final.
- Extensions:
- Read AR book.
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The company I keep now…
I’m not sure how many people truly mean it when they say it, but I am truly honored by my inclusion in the Most Influential Blog Post category of the 2007 Edublog Awards for The Ripe Environment.
To be along side Karl Fisch and his amazing work to create a mirror for our schools…
To be next to Konrad Glogowski and his visual portrayal of pedagogy…
To be among Kris Bradburn and the challenges put out by Wandering Ink…
That is what I am most honored by.
Thanks to all who nominated me. If you care to, please vote for this blog. I don’t imagine I have written as influential of blog posts as the above bloggers, but I would like it not to be an absolute slaughter in the polls.
11.29.07
Core 4:
Solved: Online schools provide a more authentic learning environment than traditional ones.
- Your 30-Minute-Expert Resources link is here.
- You can also take a look at my blog post about the issue.
My Sub Plans are Here.
links for 2007-11-29
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Great resource for teachers and students in an online setting (lessons, videos, etc.)
11.28.07
Core 1:
- Write-on: What is the benefit of defending a position you do not personally believe in within a formal debate?
- Choose-on: On a notecard, please write your top 3 choices of the following debate topics (and proposition or opposition) you would be most interested in being a part of. Remember, do not only choose sides that you agree with.
- Exploring refutation:
- What are the essential parts of direct refutation?
- How does the ARE format help refutation?
- Extensions:
- Start to gather resources for your topic.
Core 2:
- Quiz-on: How did the school board members
know to come in to Mrs. Logan’s classroom and look at the pasted-over
front pages of the textbooks? - Discuss-On: Who should decide what gets taught in schools?
- Discuss Chapter 8:
- What is the worst type of coercion displayed so far?
- Why does T.J. “turn” on the Logans?
- Extensions:
- Read Chapter 9 for Friday.
Core 3:
- Write-on: How would you tell a life story through images? What are the moments that you would capture?
- Take graphical notes on Art Spiegelman’s 1991 interview:
- The Book
- The Genre (Graphic Novels/Memoir)
- The 1940′s
- The story of Art Spiegelman’s family
- What is a Graphic Novel? And why is it the best way to express a time of absolute tragedy, chaos, and change?
- Extension:
- Ponder: How did the world of Merchant of Venice turn into the world of World War II?
Core 4:
- Write-on: Why do libraries matter?
- Read the two contrasting articles on censorship in libraries.
- What facts do these two articles use in order to prove their sides of the issue?
- How are these articles both like and dislike a formal debate?
- Based upon the information, what is the biggest problem with censorship?
- Extension: How is it possible to be better at going against what you personally believe in a debate than going for it?
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links for 2007-11-28
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Interesting repository of educational programs for the Apple II(tags: AppleII EduSoftware)
11.27.07
Core 1:
- Vote-on: Which of the following debate topics will be the student selected debate?
- Solved: New Orleans should be relocated.
- Solved: The internet is a bad influence on children.
- Solved: Video games should be considered a sport.
- Solved: Everyone should know how to swim.
- Solved: The government should aggressively fund alternative forms of energy.
- How do you search for good resources?
- Conduct your fourth and final 30-minute-expert blogging session on our chosen topic.
- Create arguments by stating your assertion, reasoning and evidence in one paragraph on your blog (similar to the examples from the handout yesterday).
- Extensions: Finalize your 30-minute-expert session. Start to look back and decide which topic is right for you.
Core 2:
- Blog-on: Is it better to be recognized for doing something good (changing people’s ideas on race/gender) or to go unrecognized? Why?
- Calling attention to your cause:
- ReacTee
- Blogging and Linking
- Other ideas?
- Work on the computers for two purposes:
- Finish your rough draft of your Academy Authentic for Friday (share with others, not me)
- Work on your Social Action Plan
- Extensions:
- Work on your Academy Authentic
Core 3:
- Share-on: Share what lesson, moral, or idea you learned from reading MOV with at least 2 other people.
- Take a look at “Why should students come to class?” and the collaborative discussion going on with our old friends from Wallingford, CT.
- Work on the computers for two purposes:
- Finish your rough draft of your Academy Authentic for Friday (share with others, not me)
- Comment/Build upon the Wallingford-based debate on virtual classes/schools
- Extensions:
- Work on your Academy Authentic
Core 4:
- Blog-on: What is freedom of expression and why is it important to our ever day lives?
- A 30-minute-expert blogging session on global censorship:
- Mr Mayo’s Delicious Account on Free Press
- Resources
- Facts
- Opinions
- Extensions:
- Finish your 30-minute-expert blogging session and post it to your blog in the correct format.
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links for 2007-11-27
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An amazing resource for logical fallacies.
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An enormous amount of great wordpress themes.
11.26.07
Core 1:
- Write-on: If I told you that there were three elements of any good argument, what would they be called? Create a workable acronym for them as well.
- Use the resources at MiddleSchoolDebate.com to practice making Arguments.
- Are the opinions you have been voicing in your 30-minute-expert sessions arguments?
- Would the facts in your 30-minute-expert sessions fit into this type of structure?
- Extensions:
- Read the discussion (from Wallingford, Conn.) going on at Discourse about Discourse: Should Students Come To Class? From your own 30-minute-expert session, write up your own opinion.
Core 2:
- Write-on: If you were trying to change the world, how would you know if you were successful or not?
- Introduce the Social Action Plan.
- Discuss-On: Who should decide what gets taught in schools?
- Read and Discuss Chapter 8:
- What is the worst type of coercion displayed so far?
- Why does T.J. “turn” on the Logans?
- Extension:
- Finish chapter 8 for Wednesday.
Core 3:
- Write-on: Is “happily ever after” a fictional creation or a representation of reality? Why?
- Who gets a “happily ever after” in Act V of The Merchant of Venice?
- Construct a “Shrek-like” organizer.
- Extensions:
- “Study” for MOV quiz on Friday.
Core 4:
- Reflect-on: How was the “debate” you held while I was gone different from the debate that you designed (with diagram)?
- Share out your diagrams on the document camera.
- Test the most popular form out with “Solved: They mayor should have paid the Piper.”
- What can we do differently/better next time?
- Extensions:
- Write out what kind of debate you believe are worth having.
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links for 2007-11-26
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(tags: WordPress MakeYourBlog/WikiBetter)
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A fairly extensive wiki for educational technology resources in all subject areas.
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Interesting blog post on powerpoint.(tags: Powerpoint LearningTheory)
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