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Backchannel Chats
This weekend I attended a terrific on-line workshop on back channeling. Classroom 2.0 Live offers live web conference style workshops every Saturday morning. As they put it on their home page “…[it] is...
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Intellectual Property Thievery
A recent comment on the on-line article in The Oregonian about the K12 Web Archive Program that I am working with brought up some very interesting thoughts. The commenter wrote, “They *do* have...
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Just Exquisite! Take 1
Teachers who are looking for an easy way to add some fun writing to their curriculum will love The Exquisite Prompt monthly writing challenge from Reading Rockets and AdLit.org. Every month, from...
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Just Exquisite! Take 2
Two things I learned from last week’s “Exquisite-ness:” 4th graders are old-hats at writing by late winter and 1st graders think that anything they write is a finished product. Last week I had the...
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Declare it a success
“Declare it a success and move on.” Those are the very wise words of one of my professors, Dr. Ken Peterson, at Portland State University. Initially when he said that he was speaking of the importance...
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It’s a wrap
This school year I have had the opportunity to work on some amazing collaborative projects. Some of the projects that I have written about are the K12 Web Archiving Program, the Exquisite Prompt...
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Connections
It is time to bring the global partner project to a close. We did accomplish some of our goals – the Sherwood students are more aware of students in the wider global community, they learned a bit about...
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Global Competence
Global competence is an issue in education that is incredibly important for students at all levels. The world has become such an interconnected global society that it is crucial that our students are...
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Communication Helps
Imagine this scenario: I am teaching a class of 1st graders in the lab. I tell the students to be sure to leave their headsets off while I am giving them instructions. A couple of students do not...
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Window and Door
The library is a window to the outside world. That was the sentiment of one teacher-librarian at a recent West Linn-Wilsonville School District teacher-librarian meeting. He talked about playing a loop...
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