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Comment on Last Child On The Web by Custom Essay

Custom Essay — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:47:38 +0000

Hello,
Really nice post! Thanks for sharing such an informative article. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Singing Hearts by Alexandria H.

Alexandria H. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:01:47 +0000

I think its a remarkable story. Just by showing her and exposing her to what is out in the digital world is a skill she will have for a life time. I as you said, I hope teachers and upcoming teachers are ready to handle and guide students like Kaia.

Alexandria H.
Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 class
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL

Comment on Twitter Search, RSS, and the Future of Connections! by Facebook in Higher Education – The Classroom Backchannel: Professors love the “chatter”

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:23:10 +0000

[...] It’s also possible to feed Twitter search terms into an RSS reader like Google Reader or Netvibes. If you do a Twitter Search for a term, you’ll notice that the results page has an RSS feed. You can compile as many Twitter Searches as you want, all in one place, which can be helpful for tracking classroom topics over longer periods of time. (*Note – Jabiz Raisdana taught me how to do this; I’m just passing along his knowledge.) [...]

Comment on Last Child On The Web by Essays

Essays — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:25:17 +0000

Hi, nice video, thanks for sharing it, i really enjoyed it.

Comment on Reading Plants by Teresa Johan

Teresa Johan — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:20:48 +0000

Well dear, your post about plants is very informative. Reading Plants At the beginning of this year, I was asked to teach a Reading Enrichment class for students who were having trouble reading. Their Language Arts teachers had labeled these students as troubled readers who needed extra support. While I have an ESL background and have taught a few enrichment classes in the past, I am by no means a literacy teacher. I know how to teach students the elements of literature, or how to write effectively, but I wasn’t sure if I would be able to teach them how to read.

Comment on Last Child On The Web by John Strange

John Strange — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:20:15 +0000

Link to I’m A Little Teapot referred to in previous comment is:

http://gallery.me.com/jstrange/100825

I thought Word Press would take an a tag. It took the i tag..

Always learning something new!

Comment on Last Child On The Web by John Strange

John Strange — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:15:12 +0000

Dear Kaia,

Thank you so much for reading a story for Dillon. We watched it after your father Syped to our class. We really enjoyed listening to you read Baby Bear, Baby Bear!

We decided that we would like to thank you by singing a song for you. Watch and listen to us sing I’m A Little Teapot.

Thank you, Kaia.

Dr. Strange’s EDM 310 Class (TT11)

Comment on Last Child On The Web by Tweets that mention Last Child On The Web | Intrepid Teacher -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention Last Child On The Web | Intrepid Teacher -- Topsy.com — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:37:02 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Jabiz Raisdana, Jabiz Raisdana and Jabiz Raisdana, Kaia Says. Kaia Says said: Hey @wmchamberlain @drjohnhadley check this out: http://intrepidteacher.edublogs.org/2009/11/05/142/ [...]

Comment on Singing Hearts by | Intrepid Teacher

| Intrepid Teacher — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:42:27 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

Comment on Big Wheel Keep On Turning by Melanie

Melanie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:36:18 +0000

I hear you on so many of the points above. I, too, am having my students blog – something I always do. But the circumstances are very different for me this year. Rather than being a college instructor teaching 20 somethings with the latest apple notebooks (the context of the last few years) and access to all the latest tech at school – and the ability to communicate with students during non school hours, I’m now teaching in the public high school system, which means limited access to the kinds of resources I enjoyed at the college level. Shared dataprojectors, few macs and a few other contexts that just add to the challenge. Namely:

1) For socio-economic reasons, not all of my students have access to the same computer resources out of school.
2) I can’t give homework (not in this program, it doesn’t get done). Everything has to happen in class.
3) For many, the very small (but important) written elements are a turn off of using a blog. Yes, I’d love to have them switch to a podcast but uh … I’d need mics!!

So I’m trying to focus on the positive. How much did they achieve? They set up Wordpress accounts, most got an about, FAQ and some resource links up about their topic – plus ONE post (the hardest challenge). Only two went beyond this (basic) expectation.

I have asked the students how I might improve this assignment for the next time – as clearly most of them were not interested in it (despite allowing them to write on virtually any topic of interest – from first person shooter video games and Ultimate Fighting Championship to “Being Muslim” and single parenthood). The topics were actually quite great, I just didn’t get them entirely completed.

Students said: “there’s too much writing.” This is a challenge in a school where traditional literacy is limited. So I have to think about the use of a blog but with far more visual media and video and audio.