The Blog of Ms. Mercer

Dangerously Irrelevant: Contest: Six-word motto for your nation’s schools? has lots of great entries. Here are some of my favorites:
USA:
Unhealthy Relationship With The Status Quo
or
Organizational Tortoises: Evolving in Revolutionary Times
or
Rudderless in the Sea of Change
Take your pick. I think they are all appropriate.
Posted by: Dave | February 06, 2008 at 10:29 AM
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For the Passion Quilt meme by Scott McLeod. Here is my entry…

The inspiration was a photo from the CARF (Children at Risk Foundation) photostream on Flickr, and plagiarizing from Unitarians. The above photo was titled limitless personality, which says a lot.
I’m going to leave it up to my readers to participate in this if they [...]

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I have a “sister” post to this one, going out on In Practice.
A recent post in dy/dan» This girl is dangerous talks about the hard questions that need to be answered when you are talking about using technology in the classroom, and refers to another blog post (which I hope to discuss in the sister [...]

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Dan Myer dy/dan » Blog Archive » Sinister Storytelling takes on criticism from Tom Hoffman about the recent Annual Report contest, and whether it’s about storytelling, or merely marketing. He feels that trying to ape corporations with our personal reports will lead something less than substantive.
So which is it?

A mere means of pushing a product.
or, [...]

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Larry Ferlazzo is questioning whether online relationships can every achieve the same level of meaningfulness (and I suspect intimacy) as face-to-face ones. Here is my argument in the affirmative….
Tonight, my school had a meeting of the Hmong Parent Group. We had parents there at every level of English literacy you can imagine, Hmong students from [...]

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at Alice’s Restaurant, so check out this interview with Larry Ferlazzo. I talked to him about how he gets support for his projects like computers for his students’ families (along with free internet service). Very thoughtful, very informative, with lots of ideas about building face to face relationships to leverage support for your program.

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Another thread from my last post and some recent discussion deals with experts.
Borderland » Blog Archive » Herd Poisoning, where Doug Noon brings up Postman’s arguments for Crazy Talk vs. Stupid Talk to argue that some edubloggers may be creating propaganda (stupid talk) in their uncritical acceptance of certain points of view, and unwillingness to [...]

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In August, Scott had this post…Dangerously Irrelevant: Not so thrilling? That post that got me started thinking about Human Rights Day. It’s coming up on December 10th, so let’s plan now. Why? Well, lets look:
Wes is concerned about human rights, Value of blogs and citizen journalism demonstrated in Myanmar » Moving at the Speed of [...]

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Lots of conversations coming up about copyright in my reader…
On 2¢ Worth » Playing with Culture David Warlick discusses a “mash-up” his son did and the atittude of the youth to copyright law.

And, on  Not So Distant Future » Textbooks meet web 2.0 Carolyn Foote weighs in on textbooks and copyright issues, I share my [...]

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2¢ Worth » Comments Ketchup… David Warlick shares some comments he’s heard recently…
Then I run across a comment that I was mostly impressed with. But the author, a network filter administrator, said,
When I go through the process of adding a new Universal Resource Locator (URL) to the filter database I actually personally evaluate [...]

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