Nice thing about parent teacher conferences is they sometime give you time to talk to the people you work with. I am finding the work that Danielle and Robert are doing in their Humanities class interesting. They have taken something fairly straight forward and made it into an ongoing activity [...]
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A draft of a where we are at email I recently sent.
I am very happy to hear that we are going one to one in the Middle School next year. When you look at what the students are learning in their middle school technology classes and the commitment that the school has made towards [...]
Continue Reading →Through my RSS feeds I came across “Here’s What I Said On Educational blogging! What Would You Say?” by Sue Waters. After listening to her speak on Ustream and following the different links on her post I began considering what we are doing with our blogs at SSIS.
Last.fm
- I Adagio sostenuto: "Moonlight" Piano Sonata N° 14 - Vladimir Ashkenazy
Essential Beethoven (Disc 1) - 2 days ago 
Blogging Cycle
As students begin exploring an issue, either self directed or from a teacher prompt, within their blogs I would like them to use a writing/research cycle that includes:
Zotero: as a research management tool
Diigo: as a social bookmarking and highlighting site
Wordpressmu: as the writing/commenting platform
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