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Ben Wilkoff

3,651 posts since 2005. My name is Ben Wilkoff, and I Teach. And Learn. A Lot.

  • Have an idea!Image via Wikipedia One of my favorite moments of The West Wing is during a conversation between the communications directory and his deputy. It…
  • Another Senior Project: Social Network ResearchImage via Wikipedia I don’t have a lot of time to write this post (crazy things happen when I get excited about an idea) , but I really want to…
  • Best Senior Project, Ever.Image by Getty Images via Daylife As I have been looking for people who are working to roll out Google Apps for Education in their schools, I…
  • The Missing Community for Google Apps?Image via CrunchBase As I am working hard to roll out Google Apps for Education for our online school, I am struggling to find the community that…
  • How do you take attendance (or engagement)?Image by inju via Flickr When the students are directly in front of you, it is easy. You count up the number of kids and see just who they are.…
  • Laying down the gauntlet…Image via Wikipedia I am trying to create a learning environment worthy of my kids. That’s all. I am working feverishly every day so that by the…
  • The Killer App: Google Apps and Moodle Integration?Image via Wikipedia Even though I haven’t used Moodle as much as WordPress and Wikispaces in my own teaching and learning, I have installed it…
  • A coalition of the willing: Online Learning in ColoradoImage via Wikipedia One of the biggest things that I learned from CoLearning 2009, was that if the conversations about change in education are…
  • I believe in burning out.As much fun as I will have reflecting on CoLearning 2009, I am too burned out to do so tonight. I am too burned out on conversing with anyone but…
  • What's the point?I am sitting in Anne Smith’s classroom listening to students talk about the ways in which students believe they are seen vs. the way they see…