Reflections on Teaching

Thanks for letting me chat with your class tonight. Lots of great questions. I’m sorry I was under the weather and unable to stay long. If you have further questions, please send me a comment below. Also, it would be a great help is you share with me resources or approaches that have or have [...]

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I am moderating a group on Classroom Management with Larry Ferlazzo at Edutopia in their new online group area.  Please join me there for discussions and advice from Larry. I’ve started things off with a post titled, “Does Shut Go Up?”
In other news, I’ve added two new pages to this  blog. One, called Comment Policy [...]

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In my whirlwind tour of various conferences, I had a great time meeting other educators. Some were like minded, and some were not. There is a tendency to be uncomfortable with these “differences of opinion”, but sometimes I’m more troubled by what I hear from “like-minded” colleagues.
One of the things I always try to look [...]

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I did a guest blog piece on ISTE about what I found to be a more fruitful way to expand my network than sitting in the Bloggers Cafe (a lovely place, btw) and wait for a “talent scout” or “famous” edublogger to notice me typing furiously…
Expanding your network

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What went well…
VoiceThread
VoiceThread has really become my go to for building background or schema with my students, and I think it’s about the easiest tool for doing this.  Others have derided VoiceThread as unaesthetic, but unless you are trained in Waldorf you would be hard pressed to come up with better looking K-W-L charts (which [...]

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I love getting and reading the Sacramento Bee, and love being able to read it online. The comments however are a real mix of the bitter and the sweet. I hate how the limited space in the print version constricts representations of different points of view. If that is the problem in the print paper, [...]

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As part of my promise to do a better job of sharing upcoming events more than 24 hours before they occur, here is my list of online “events” that I’ll be doing this month.
Monday June 8th at 6 p.m. PDT: It’s Elementary:Reflecting on the School Year Ending
It’s Elementary
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Wednesday June 17th at 9 a.m. [...]

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The participation in the June 2009 ESL/EFL/ELL Carnival was great and folks seemed to have a good time (the word “fun” came up a lot in comments). Let me take this opportunity to share that it is never too early to submit for the next carnival in August 2009 hosted by Candace Williams. The ELL [...]

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