Reflections on Teaching

Can’t remember where I got this link from but russell davies: how to be interesting has this list of things to do to make yourself more interesting. I decided to do a close of summer activity (I’m back with the kiddos next Monday) and see how my summer stacks up with this list:
1. Take [...]

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What educational blogs do you read? – Classroom 2.0
Lucky son, I don’t know if my mom would be a nice about my blog! Really you have to admire this kind of self-promotion. I’m pretty impressed though after seeing the blog. Guess his mom didn’t lie.
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Man, I’m so glad I [...]

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A fantastic conversation with Dave Cormier of Ed Tech Talk on Webcast Academy. I will likely be doing a semi-regular show there on politics and policy.
Show notes:

I give background to this series on discussions on Education Reform
I give Dave a choice of topics (notice that we never get to three because he says he’ll fly [...]

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In Dangerously Irrelevant: Urban school decay posts images of Detroit’s text book depository as a metaphor for the decay of many of our urban schools.
In California, it’s the anniversary of implementation of the Williams settlement. This brought settlement to a suit from the ACLU and others regarding conditions in schools serving the poorest students in [...]

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With filtering software, and monitoring, and students working all in a row?
In Around the Corner v2 – MGuhlin.net – The Gardener the question of walled gardens comes up. This is based on a back and forth between Brian and Dean Shareski about TeacherTube vs. YouTube and the whether TeacherTube is “fake” or just [...]

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Consented to let me interview him for my Webcast Academy Internship. Here it is.

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Well, as I predicted, the competition smoked my entry in Dy/Dan’s Four Slide Competition,. After I woke up from a night of valium and martinis to drown my sorrows, I could console myself that at least I wasn’t a winner. The ending was almost as messy as an election in Florida, with the winner pulling [...]

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How did I come up with this great idea? Hey Wes Fryer thinks it’s great, so I’m not gonna argue. He can call me Maria, heck he can call me Jose if he’s gonna say nice stuff like this…
School finance in California is a many-headed hydra. Basically, the money comes from the state level, down [...]

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