September 2007
24 posts published in September 2007.
- The Academy Authentic ProcessRevision and feedback are the most essential elements of the Academy Authentic. If you have not revised your piece and you have not already…
- 09.26.07 and 09.27.07Cores 1-4: Discuss-on: What is the most meaningful feedback you have ever gotten (on writing, on playing a sport, or anything else)? Introduce…Lesson Plans
- 09.25.07Share-on: Reveal to at least two other people the progress of your persuasive weekend. Were you able to persuade your family/friend to do a piece…Lesson Plans
- The Act of CreationSometimes we get so caught up in creating the system and the environment for learning that we forget about the most important element of that…Lesson Plans
- 09.24.07Core 1: Share-on: Reveal to at least two other people the progress of your persuasive weekend. Were you able to persuade your family/friend to do…Lesson Plans
- 09.21.07Core 1: Write-on: How can the specific words that we use affect how persuasive we are in our writing or speaking? Continue working on “Tom Sawyer…Lesson Plans
- 09.20.07Core 1: Write-on: What is the one chore that you despise the most? Read “Tom Sawyer Whitewashing the Fence.” Does Tom make fallacious arguments or…Lesson Plans
- 09.19.07Cores 1-4: Write-on: Finish this sentence and write two more to follow it up, “Language Arts with Mr. Wilkoff is…” Complete the student-led…Lesson Plans
- 09.18.07Core 1: Write-on: What kind of arguments/persuasion are false? (Sometimes persuasive but always fallacious, deceitful, or just plain wrong) Which…Lesson Plans
- 09.17.07Core 1: Write-on: How would you persuade someone visually? Present persuasion Smart Notebook files. What do you notice about these ideas? Reflect…Lesson Plans
- 09.14.07Core 1: Explore-on: How are these poems the same as Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, and how are they different? Devil Dog Way to Choose The…Lesson Plans
- 09.13.07I will not be at school today, as I am still at the Digital Educator Mentor training. Here are my sub plans: 091307.docLesson Plans
- The Ripe Environment: It’s the content, stupid.It has taken me quite a while to figure out how to come back to The Ripe Environment with all of the things that I am doing within my school. It…
- Choices, Choices…This is the first podcast in over a month because I needed to upgrade for more storage space. It is not an enhanced podcast, but I’m sure it will…
- Beginning the year, systematically.This podcast is all about how I am starting my year. I would love to know how you are starting your year and how we can collaborate (share) any of…
- Articulating VisionI am now convinced that the only way to create widespread change within our schools is to articulate a singular vision for the future of…
- 09.12.07I am at a Digital Educator Meeting Today, but here are my substitute lesson plans: 091207.docLesson Plans
- 09.11.07Core 1: Share-on: Share with at least one other person what you have written about The Road Less Traveled and the concept of change. Introduce…Lesson Plans
- 09.10.07Cores 1+4: Discuss-on: What is content? What is the Academy Authentic? Watch the tutorial on Writing in Your Blog. Extensions: Use the Academy…Lesson Plans
- 09.07.07Core 1: Write-On: What is the most difficult dichotomous choice (only two options) you have had to make in your life? Read The Road Not Taken by…Lesson Plans
- 09.06.07Cores 1-4: Introduction to your Academy of Discovery Google Account. Docs Calendar Gmail Tutorial for how to login to your Academy of Discovery…Lesson Plans
- A moment from my student life…I am sitting here in a professional development about inquiry in writing and I have been asked to write a small anecdote about my own school…
- 09.05.07I was away at a district-wide Discovery Language Arts meeting today. Here are my sub plans: 090507.docLesson Plans
- 09.04.07Core 1-4: Discuss-on: Why do MAP results matter? Explore Lexile levels: Lexile Map Find a book database: put together a book bag and print it out.…Lesson Plans