This blog has a subtitle: Reflections on Education, Technology and Learning My other less-frequently used blog, ‘Practic-All’, is subtitled, Pragmatic tools and ideas for the classroom. Recently I started using this other blog to provide a digital addition to my Principal’s weekly e-mail update. I did 9 of these to end the year off. I […]
Month: June 2008
Kids say the darndest things
A light look at some actual Grade 4 & 5 test questions and responses at my wife’s school: ____________________________________________________________ How do you think the Wright brothers felt after the first flight. Why? Good. They did something good for once. Do you think jet airplanes have changed our lives for the better? Why? No. Pollution, hello? […]
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Inaction is action
Someone I know has a child in elementary school. That child came home and complained, “It’s no fair!” “What’s not fair?” Her mother asks. “We were lined up to go to the computer lab and two boys were noisy so we didn’t go.” “What did you do instead?” “Extra math sheets.” And what was done […]
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Edupunk or Educational Leader?
Confession #1: I had planned on calling this post, “Edupunk or edubunk?” bunk: nonsense- a message that seems to convey no meaning That was before reading this simple, but very powerful post by Jen D. Jones. Now I need to change my approach. My main point sits under Confession #3 below. – – – – […]
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What comes around
The task was simple: Have your advisory pick an issue in the school and then create a video that promotes awareness of the problem and/or a solution to the problem. This is what Mr. Williams’ advisory came up with last year. I like the use of camera direction to help tell the story. This to […]
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Something from Nothing
A Blog from Nothing I remember when I put a ClustrMap on my blog. I saw one on a novel study wiki and thought it would be great for student wikis & blogs, to help students see that they have a global audience. It took me over an hour to figure out how and where […]
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Harnessing our advantage
Originally posted: March 30th, 2008 Reflection upon re-reading and re-posting: This is the last post that I have to move and so I thought I would put my reflection first. I actually posted this after I went back to the beginning of my blog and started the reposting process. There is only one other time […]
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Ripples and Tidal Waves
There is a saying that ‘when it rains it pours’ and I have really felt that over the past couple weeks! I was given one of a few short-noticed promotions for Feb. 1st., wonderful news that completely surprised me. I am now a Vice Principal of a Middle School and my two weeks there have […]
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Do not go quietly into your classroom
I spent Friday morning with 22 student teachers and a couple teachers from my school. My goal was to introduce them to the world of web2.0, wikis, and del.icio.us. Well 2 out of 3 ain’t bad- I didn’t really get into delicious beyond an introduction. That aside, I think this group of future teachers really […]
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And finally, I will leave you with this:
This is the end of my last post on our class Ning network for Planning 10 this term. The first link isn’t really appropriate but my students get my sense of humour by now, and we just finished talking about sex-ed, so I put it in anyway. For reasons I cannot express in this venue […]
