Considering…
Considering our whole school focus on teacher walk-throughs with total focus on reading and math, we have collaborated on several projects for our tech and writing classes. In reading, we … Continue Reading Considering…
Blogging Meme: You Can Do It Too
#Rockstar Meme: You Can Do It Too I was recently invited to participate in the #Rockstar Meme — How Blogging Rocked Your World by one of the most inspiring and … Continue Reading Blogging Meme: You Can Do It Too
Differentiate: It Works
More than Basics Teachers in today’s “reformed” schools often are pressured by time, mandates, and test scores into lessons that: Post the objective. State the objective. Explain the objective. Practice … Continue Reading Differentiate: It Works
Continued Citizenship
This year our students have already accomplished several projects: Quad Blogs with three other schools Collaborate with two Iowa schools on Parts of Speech Global Read Aloud 2011: Tuck Everlasting … Continue Reading Continued Citizenship
#leadershipday11 Our Reflection: 2+2+2
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Pen Pals
…pen pals promote careful and critical thinking required in discourse; pen pals prepare students for engaging not just a new friend, but also new ideas.
Collaboration Partners and Peer Review
Collaboration doesn’t just happen. We work at it. One way we do this is by partner work on the computer. After posting writing on the wiki, students partner up. The … Continue Reading Collaboration Partners and Peer Review
Timid to Blog? Try this:
…help my students grow their PLN while traveling down their writing road…
Google Docs: Transition Traditions
…constantly collaborating: listening to each other and considering the inclusion, omission, and organization of ideas and images…
Web Design, Google Sites
This question began the journey, “What does our site need?”
Google Apps in Education Collaboration
What’s great about Google Apps? We can collaborate on projects
Blogging: From comments to blogs
blog about your ideas on someone else’s paragraph or story.
Blogging Begins
As we passed the work along, and student comments became
longer and better as they read other comments…
Blogging in Writing Class
Hopefully, some of you can identify with and be helped and encouraged by these experiences of a regular classroom teacher in a very rural area attempting to bring 21st Century … Continue Reading Blogging in Writing Class
The Flow in Writing Class
Online writing and sharing is a positive learning experience.
Diigo in Writing Class
Diigo is our friend in the writing classroom.
1DR What Else? 