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 [...]
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Sitting at the blogger café unable to get online. The situation is dripping with irony, but I digress. People I should be connecting with surround me, but I find myself retreating back to where I feel safe. In words.
I have been plagued by a sense of bitterness and apathy since I arrived at NECC, and [...]
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On June 4th, I gave a talk called Life as an Open Book at Qatar Academy for the first ever Tedx event put together by Julie Lindsay.
I spent quite a bit of time planning the talk, but the execution was not exactly what I had in mind. I was plagued by repetition, false starts, and [...]
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I am sitting in an unconference session called “Echo Chamber.” To my right Brian Crosby scratches his hair as Clarence Fischer, who sits to my left, proposes that an echo chamber may sometimes be a good thing, a source of rejuvenation. I can’t seem to articulate what I find disconcerting about the echo chamber. David [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Found this link on Twitter and thought I’d share.
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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 [...]
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