Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 29th, 2008 3 Comments »
One of the educational blogs that I added to my google reader is called History is Elementary. Although I don’t teach elementary history, it was an interesting site with things more relevant to middle school social studies than many of the others I found. After reading the site for a few days, I even discovered [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2008 No Comments »
There were many sites and blogs that caught my interest in this task. One that particularly resonated with me was A call for a textbook purchasing moratorium on Infinite Thinking Machine. The writer, who makes a point that she is not against books at all, proposes that public schools are wasting taxpayers’ money with the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2008 5 Comments »
In “How to Prevent Another Leonado da Vinci” Kris Bradburn has some great insights. #4 Sfumato is one of my favorites. Students today (and who knows? maybe in our day as well) cannot seem to grasp that the world is not black and white. There is so much gray! This week, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2008 2 Comments »
Wow - Web 2.0 - again a lot to absorb. I totally agree that these students are in our classes, and we are trying to prepare them for jobs that don’t even exist right now. How can we live up to that challenge except to know that previous teachers did it for the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2008 4 Comments »
This is exciting stuff. I hope I’m up to the challenge. The 71/2 habits are great. The one that will give me the most challenge is #4 as I am already feeling overwhelmed. I’m not the multitasker that most people are so this is a lot to absorb. Even these blog [...]
