I posted a little while ago about an interview that I did with a Ning.com creator. My post focused on my technology Wish-List for the classroom, but they have finally posted the entire interview. If you would like to take a look at all of my long-winded answers, you can …
When I read this piece for the fourth and fifth time, I really got it. SoccerLover did a great job picking something that I could really connect to. She picked a representation of life through books that I find tantalizingly fulfilling. It did leave me with a few questions, though. …
Homework: Bring some piece of my own reading that deals with language and the brain. Book Recommendations: The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World Rethinking Linguistic Relativity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language) Not everyone can be a mathematician, but everyone …
ELT: Write-Ons: Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life? How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs? What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week? Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for …
Cores 1-4: Introduce the process of commenting. (Model using Commenting Like a King or Queen.) Introduce Bloglines (optional account to set up using How-To) Go to the library and read and comment on your own core class first using the grazr navigator. Guiding questions: How/Why do you think this post …
ELT: Write-Ons: Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life? How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs? What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week? Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for …
ELT: Write-Ons: Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life? How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs? What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week? Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for …
ELT: Write-Ons: Why do you think that people act differently online then they do in real life? How can we create a safe environment for everyone on our blogs? What are the inherent risks of posting to a blog once a week? Explore the Discovery Blogging Rules websites looking for …
Early last week I was asked by Yoz Grahame (a lead developer of Ning.com) to answer a few questions about how I was using web 2.0 tools (and specifically Ning) in my classroom to be used in a post for the Ning Blog. I was quite surprised and a little …
A former male 8th grade student of mine has been e-mailing me consistently ever since he figured out that I really love to read my students writing. He has been sending me a few stories a month for about six months now. I read these really crazy pieces and say …