April 2007

23 posts published in April 2007.

  • 04.30.07Core 1: Write-On: What is the line between leadership and dictatorship. Read the next chapter of Animal Farm and figure out where/if the line has…Lesson Plans
  • 04.27.07Core 1: Review the revised Discovery Online Code. Write-On: How would you know if you were being controlled? Read the next chapter in Animal Farm…Lesson Plans
  • 04.26.07Core 1: How do we need to update The Discovery Blogging Rules so that they include wiki-specific ideas. What can we do with our new found…Lesson Plans
  • Visions of ChangeWell, I guess it was bound to happen sometime, but I really didn’t expect it to happen this soon. We have received funding for our School 2.0…Lesson Plans
  • 04.23.07Core 1: Check out the Clustr Map. How does this change the nature of our writing/project? Discuss-On: What kind of leader usually wins a…Lesson Plans
  • Creating the School 2.0 MovementI have become dissatisfied with talking about School 2.0 only among educators. It seems to be this feedback loop that creates a lot of noise, but…Lesson Plans
  • 04.19.07Core 1: Who do you think the animals represent in a society? Boxer Clover Benjamin Muriel Squealer Read Chapter 5: What does a societal shift look…Lesson Plans
  • 04.18.07Cores 1-4: Guess how much of our Academy of Discovery budget was set aside for us at the meeting last night? Core 1: Should leaders have more…Lesson Plans
  • 04.17.07Cores 1, 2, 4: Watch Inquiring Minds Need to Know and introduce the Academy of Discovery: What should we change before we go to the parent…Lesson Plans
  • 04.16.07Core 1: What is the easiest way to hide corruption within a society? Read Chapter 4 in Animal Farm. Work on utopias. Who in your utopia is…Lesson Plans
  • 04.13.07Core 1: Creating interactivity on your wiki using sPresent. Wiki work and troubleshooting. Core 2: How was your -Ism shaped by the following…Lesson Plans
  • 04.12.07Core 1: What kind of wiki contributer are you, and why? Distilling your Utopian ideals into a set of 7 (or more) commandments: What kinds of…Lesson Plans
  • 04.11.07Core 1: Write-On: What is your anthem, and how has it persuaded you to be who you to be who you are? Read and Discuss chapter two. Core 2: What…Lesson Plans
  • Web PresenceThere is a new type of reputation out there. It lingers and builds long after you you have stopped caring about it. Managing it is hard. Too many…
  • Beyond RubricsThis podcast was created because of a discussion I had with my students about the merits of rubrics in a School 2.0 classroom. The data was mixed.…
  • 04.10.07Cores 1, 2, and 4: What is your Digital Legacy? Work on your wiki edit that you will use for your weekly authentic, or blog for your weekly…Lesson Plans
  • 04.09.07Core 1: Write-On: What would it take for you to start or go along with a revolution? Enter Animal Farm Core 2: Extending the classroom: What does…Lesson Plans
  • 04.06.07Core 1: What is leadership? The History of Communism in 7 Parts Working with wikimail and working on your Utopias Core 2: How can we use a social…Lesson Plans
  • The Embedded ClassroomThe two wiki project that my students have started to work on have taught me that an open framework that allows for embedded materials is…
  • 04.05.07Core 1: Introduction to the ideas from animal farm. Get the BritLit Podcast to work. Respond to personalized discussion questions and continue to…Lesson Plans
  • 04.04.07Core 1: How can we discuss our worlds? New examples of Utopian integration. Introduction to the reaction novel. Read about and discuss the many…Lesson Plans
  • 04.03.07Cores 1-4: What is the Value of Amateurs? Work on Sem2_Week11 either on your blog (using Writetomyblog.com or Learnerblogs.org if it is working)…Lesson Plans
  • 04.02.07Core 1: How will the las eight weeks of middle school be different from the rest of middle school? Show off the Official Seal Generator How will…Lesson Plans