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Paper Blog LP

Ruth requested my lesson plan in a comment, and when I looked for it where I had posted it online last April, I couldn’t find the wiki space. Has the classroom 20 wiki gone away? <sigh> So,...

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Reaching Community

So, I have this really great video on tap, from Ken Robinson’s TED talk about the importance of educating for creativity and valuing the fine arts. Our school is gifted with being able to pursue those...

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Twits in the Library!

Every other year in my rotation with 1st and 2nd grade levels, I have a “Twits” year. It culminates in a student multimedia presentation where each student presents characters they’ve designed. I’m...

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Turning Points

…I’ve really missed blogging. Usually, I blog when I’ve had a chance to reflect on what I’m doing, or what I’ve read. It means that I’ve existed in a universe where reading, doing, and reflection can...

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Code of Ethics vs. list of rules

It’s been 4 years, just about, since our first set of technology studio rules were created by middle school students. The rules worked very well: there were only a few, they were positive statements,...

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“Blog to find out: __”

Tools and techniques used in the right way can scaffold learning. Teachers often use them to direct student learning experiences. When students engage with those same tools and techniques for their own...

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Hiatus

I expect to be blogging again, but probably not before March. In October I committed to taking on a bunch of extra work which gives me very little free time. What I’ve done with what free time I have...

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Retuning

I’m looking forward to a year of honing my teaching skills and catching up!  Last year was a year of “immersion” learning: learning of development, marketing and admissions skills at the small school...

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Treasures from the Trenches–or at least my compatriots

I’ve got little time to do much else but point to the wonderful treasures those in my RSS and twitter and mailing lists are pointing me to these days. They are sustaining me, and enriching me, while I...

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Child’s Play in Changing Times

After 9/11, we watched children build wooden block towers and crash them down. Children of all ages, working through the unthinkable images they’d seen and heard about. On Monday, after the recent...

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