Posted in Blogging, Networking, Sharing Info on Jan 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
This has been and in all truth is still a crazy week. I helped organize a guest speaker at our school to help raise funds and awareness for our Global Issues Club; I have been finishing up two major projects- one on Rome and another connecting growing plants and literacy, I am still trying to [...]
Posted in Assessments, Networking on Jan 22nd, 2008 2 Comments »
The Labor Art project was created after our eighth grade students finished reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. We wanted the students to use art, in this case poetry and songwriting to: raise awareness, inform the public, and inspire action on social issues. We wanted them to focus on the discrepancy between the haves [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 17th, 2008 4 Comments »
It is Thursday night here in Doha, the equivalent of a Friday night, and I am ready to decompress. I am having a few friends over to watch some mindless movies and simply relax. Before they arrive however, I thought I’d write a quick post about a very simple yet potent feature of blogging- Building [...]
Posted in Changing Teachers, Networking on Jan 16th, 2008 5 Comments »
For the last week or so my brain has been on fire. In the classroom I am facilitating three very complicated, exhausting, yet rewarding projects with my students. One dealing with creating art, specifically poetry/songwriting to affect social; the second is a standards-based, student-designed project, connecting the lessons learned from the fall of the Roman [...]
Posted in Networking on Jan 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
I never thought writing a blog post would be the easiest and most relaxing thing I would do all night. A few days ago, I felt disconnected and afraid that I was falling behind the Classroom 2.0 world, and so I started a blog. Since then I have joined Twitter, sign onto three Nings and [...]
Posted in Changing Teachers on Jan 9th, 2008 No Comments »
Found this link on Twitter and thought I’d share.
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Posted in Changing Teachers on Jan 8th, 2008 2 Comments »
So what does all of this mean? I have spent the last several hours immersed in this new network of educators. I feel drained and overwhelmed. There is so much out there. So much information, so many tools, so many people to communicate with. I am wondering if I shouldn’t simply crawl back in my [...]
Posted in Tech Tips on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Wow! What a warm and hospitable dawn for Intrepid Teacher: Fifty-two visitors, fifteen comments and already seventeen Twitter followers. It feels like I am off to an auspicious start. I have added a brief bio in the About Me tab to answer a few basic questions, but now it is time to get to [...]
Posted in Blogging, Teaching on Jan 7th, 2008 16 Comments »
It’s always a strange feeling to start a new blog. There is the sentiment that one need lay out a course of action, write their exposition, or explain oneself fully before getting started, and while I feel that pressure to do this, I am finally ready to simply jump right in start this blog. My [...]
