Posted in Intrepid Classroom, Networking on Jun 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
A few days ago, I was chatting with Lindsea on Skype about a variety of topics: music, education, and the need for adults to communicate more often and more in depth with students. We briefly brainstormed a few ideas we each had for the EduPunk challenge, when we arrived at the following slogan for her [...]
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 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 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 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 [...]
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