Posted in Networking, Power of Web 2.0 on Feb 25th, 2008 11 Comments »
If you were walking by room 3208 today at about 3:25, this is what you would have seen:
A group of eighth graders (and one especially brilliant seventh grader), a few high school students, and their teacher preparing for a Global Issues Conference in Düsseldorf; they are discussing the meaning of sustainability and what that means [...]
Posted in Tools on Feb 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
The administration at my school seems to be quite interested in understanding what I mean when I say that I want to empower 21st century literate students by creating a new type of classroom. The 21st century school cannot rely on a few scattered computer labs to allow students to create a PowerPoint presentation or [...]
Posted in Changing Teachers, Networking on Jan 16th, 2008 7 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 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 [...]
