Posted in Blogging, Community, Power of Web 2.0, personal on Nov 5th, 2009 5 Comments »
I love ongoing online stories that chart a series of connecting events and people. On September 24, I wrote a blog post called Singing Hearts, in which I highlighted a photo essay created by my three-year-old daughter Kaia and the reaction it elicited from @wmchamberlain’s class in Missouri.
I am happy to report that the story [...]
Posted in Blogging, Changing Teachers, Collective Learning, Community, Distance Learning, Networking, Philosophy, education, recruiting on Sep 30th, 2009 42 Comments »
It has been an interesting week in Doha. The government Supreme Council has decreed that all schools stay closed until October 4th in an effort to curb the spread of Swine Flu. What makes matters more complicated is that this announcement came on the tail of a weeklong holiday for Eid, so I haven’t seen [...]
Posted in Blogging, Community, Twitter on Mar 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
This is why I blog and twitter and facebook and flickr and youtube and all that jazz. I have a deep faith in the power of human beings to get togther and solve the world’s problems through a shared understanding that if we just sit and understand each other, the world is not as complicated [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jul 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
This post has been a long time. I have been feeling guilty for abandoning this blog for the last few months, and I am here to confess that I have been busy recharging my batteries and enjoying my summer.
I feel that I lost direction and purpose for the blog sometime around March when I left [...]
Posted in Blogging, Commenting, Networking, Power of Web 2.0 on May 4th, 2008 4 Comments »
I also left this comment, albeit it was the 83rd one, at The Strength of Weak Ties:
Wow! This discussion is at the same time intense and depressing. Once again, I feel like the kid who doesn’t know the right things to say to be considered cool. I am fairly new to the “echo-chamber,” and as [...]
Posted in Blogging on Mar 1st, 2008 3 Comments »
What a week I’ve had! All of my classes are fully immersed with our blogging, and everything is rolling full steam ahead. I was sifting through my Google Reader account the other night, reading students blogs, and I was blown away by how quickly most of my students are learning the basics. I simply make [...]
Posted in Blogging on Feb 24th, 2008 5 Comments »
It has taken me a long time, since August really, to get my kids online, blogging, and connected. Now that we are finally ready to go, I am learning how difficult it can be to get middle school students to actively and thoughtfully write on a regular basis. I have started by making my students [...]
Posted in Blogging, Changing Teachers on Feb 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Earlier today, I popped into a meeting to talk with a few teachers about whether or not they would be interested in my new Blogging Club. They had expressed interest in the past, so I figured they would be a good starting point. We had a quick chat about the importance of teachers using the [...]
Posted in Blogging, Changing Teachers on Feb 17th, 2008 5 Comments »
People are afraid of change, and experience has taught me that teachers in particular are no different. While we claim to be resolute in teaching our students how to discover the skills in becoming life long learners, realistically many of us seem to hit the occasional wall when it comes to our own learning. If [...]
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 [...]
