Have you met the herders? August 29, 2008
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I love these herders…
In addition to talking to colleagues about what they are doing this fall to utilize technology in their classrooms (and we have more than those I mentioned in my last post, the list is long), you’ll love to take five minutes to read this article (and/or watch the linked video if it works – lately it has been a little sketchy). I know the clip is from 2006 but I have loved it ever since I saw it on CNN!
The nomadic herders and their technology are inspiring.
Happy Friday!
“…some wiki-page thing…” August 28, 2008
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How great is that?! It is exactly what I heard as I walked through the commons after school today. A student, either 9th or 10th grade, was talking with a bunch of his friends and that was the sliver of conversation I overheard. How exciting! We have not been in session five full days yet and we have many of our staff members trying new things: Krista’s students used ANIMOTO to create advertisements for Colombia (thank you Animoto for the educational access to full-length video creation!) – Paul is getting ready for his religiion students to dig in on thier wiki – Suzanne created an amazing wiki for the choir students – Mary and Ann are piloting blogging with their students – engaging with technology is happening everywhere!
Beyond taking five today to talk to our colleagues about what they are doing, I’m going to show my bias to political science and encourage a quick trip to C-SPAN as their convention coverage is impressive (if you missed a speech this week, you’ll find it here) or, as the RNC converges on the great city of St Paul this weekend, it is interesting to see how each party handles their websites (e.g. I saw a great “Convention 101″ page on the DNC’s site which I’ll use tomorrow with my students and the time lapse prep link is pretty cool on the RNC’s site). I’m hoping to go down to the “X” tonight and take some pre-convention pix – we’ll see how that goes.
How ever you take five this Friday, I hope it leads into a great long weekend -
Happy learning!
It begins again…tomorrow August 21, 2008
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I cannot believe we are back at it – workshops, people’s rooms in disarray, fresh paint, chairs everywhere, and students coming Monday. Tomorrow begins the second season (the first complete season) of the Friday Five. I hope you will consider tuning in.
$6000 – really? August 9, 2008
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So I was listening to the radio on my way home and heard an economist who was talking about how families now spend approximately $6000 on electronic media annually. Internet, cell phones/texting, cable television, tivo, pagers were his main points of reference. I went through our subscriptions/contracts and we’re way under his $6000 – we have cable internet, two cell phones, basic cable, and that’s about it. It is interesting, though, my parents didn’t have those choices, at least for most of my K-12 years. We got cable sometime when I was in high school, and that was really the only “luxury” I remember being available. $6000 would buy a lot of food – does the number seem high? Just something I’ve been kicking around for a little while and thought I’d reacquaint myself with my blog as school is gearing up soon…
