Reflections on Teaching

I redid the blog themes on all of the blogs so that they will have a separate look/identity. I’m getting risky by doing the sixth graders in black.
Sixth Grade Blog » Assignment #4
As a prelude to having them create commercials in MovieMaker, I had them create a single slide in PowerPoint about their theme perseverance. [...]

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Not Invited to the Buffet

Tim Holt’s post that started it all…

The Blog of Ms. Mercer » Social Equity and the Edublogosphere

I posted my thoughts here then…

» Black students, white teacher… In Practice

…and strangely enough, all that discussion eventually led me to this.

Web 2.0 Education Leaders – white, male, American – Classroom 2.0

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Around the Corner v2 – MGuhlin.net – Mudflaps and Libraries

Public Libraries in Wyoming have a new campaign featuring the mudflap gal. Now there’s an advocacy campaign! This reminded me of back when I did work advocating for public libraries. Truckers are apparently big library users (they like audio books). For the record, I consider this [...]

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I really dropped the ball this week on reflecting on my practice. Oh, I realized after specific lessons what was working, and what wasn’t, but I did a hideous job documenting this and frankly with 6 classes a day, 5 days a week, it’s hard to remember it all, so now I’m recreating from what [...]

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Lisa’s Lingo: My “Little” Circle of Friends
Wow, I’m part of a social network. Nice words from Lisa.
dy/dan » Blog Archive » NYT-Quality Charting Using Dumb Ol’ Excel
Dan has a video showing a really cool way to create decent looking graphs on Excel.
Kobus van Wyk – Blog
Wow! Another awesome piece of analysis from Kobus [...]

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…which in my opinion is to tell the truth. I came across, One Minute of Nonsense when Larry Feralazzo sent me to an article on Whole Language living on. That led me to this article on Dibels, where I answer a commenter who likes her Dibels. Summary: some kind of assessment data, is the [...]

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Dy/Dan pointed back to this TMAO post, and it seems particularly relevant to me now. It’s about those moments when a teacher despairs about their effectiveness. I’m not at that point of despair (it is only September), but I am reflecting on the first two weeks, and I’m concerned about my instruction with first [...]

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Technical difficulties that can plague the start of the school year are featured in Sherry Technically Speaking: The Start of the School Year. This has lead to a response from Scott McLeod, Dangerously Irrelevant: It’s the system, stupid

In the post, Sherry questions whether she should be complaining publicly on her blog, and this is echoed [...]

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