Jenny Luca tagged me for this meme, so I thought I would play along. Because my dad was in the Army, I attended 13 schools in 12 years. I attended one semester in an all-girls school in France, where I was one of two English-speaking students, and I graduated from high school in Germany. I…
All posts in December 2008
Help me plan….
A recent blog post on a private ning about making our planning transparent has me thinking. I am teaching a ninth-grade English class on Introduction to Genres this year for the first time, using plans from a former teacher. So far, it has worked well since I have a solid base in short stories and…
FA Blogs, Together
Thanks to Jim Groom, instructional technology specialist at the University of Mary Washington–the EduPunk himself, my school has a blogging platform! It's just a beginning, and I am finding my way around how to manage WPMU. But soon, we'll open it up to students and faculty. It all started here. Then Jim graciously agreed to…
Building Community
The third face to face meeting of our FA team, part of the international cohort of the Powerful Learning Practice (phew, that's a mouthful) met yesterday.And we built some social capital.Man, is it great working with such a bright, talented group of people. They share, reflect, push back, and reflect some more.We researched questions…
What they already know…
My kids have been presenting this week. I’m not sure what I expected. But it wasn’t what I got. They had written persuasive essays on topics of their choice, ranging from poverty to animal treatment to global warming. But I wanted to see what they could do with visuals, so I asked them to also…