Blogging tips and assessment
Some useful tips on good blogging practice, from Idratherbewriting. Nothing revolutionary or outrageous, just common sense, but it works as a useful reminder. #10 spoke to me: “archive by topic rather than date”, unless yours is a purely personal journal. “Date archives mean little to readers.” Following his own tip of linking abundantly (#8), idratherbewriting [...]
Bloggy thinking?
Harold Jarche points out that blogs are good for conversations, but not so good for longer, more sustained thought, and his own entry is a good example. Homework is only one activity that lacks evidence to support its continuance. Subject-based curriculum, age-based cohorts and reliance on unsound models like Bloom’s Taxonomy to measure learning outcomes [...]
A teacher assesses Elgg, Drupal, et al…
Dan Meyer is checking out Elgg, Drupal, and others. Dan works fast, and thinks fast. He scribbles notes to himself and lets us read them. Watch Dan go. Go, Dan, go!
When public education, isn’t
The situation in the US just boggles my mind. My first recent brush with it came after reading this post, then after reading Savage Inequalities and Doc, and again after reading this post. Now, after reading this exchange between Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch on the blog Bridging Differences (HT to Borderland for the link), [...]
As I was saying
Not exactly the point I was making just the other day…but close, although I think I said it better! Read the whole thing at Vanity Press.
Blogging to broaden your perspective
Karl Fisch responded to my post on his impressive presentation “Did You Know?” and it raised an issue I’ve been wanting to write about. But first, go see the Doonesbury cartoon for Sunday, March 4th 2007. Are you back? OK. Karl writes As far as the “nationalistic” piece, that was not the intent – please [...]
No comment … with links on
My insightful, hugely important comments have recently been gobbled up by software at a couple of sites recently. In Dan’s case , my comment was tagged as spam, probably due to all the links in it. I like linking and tagging, so this is really cramping my style. I shall have to resort to blogging [...]
Whine – performancing won’t work
Performancing is a great tool. Want to blog about a web-page you’re looking at? Just right-click to bring up the Performancing Firefox add-on interface and start typing. Only problem is… it doesn’t work! Not with the new Google Blogger. Some problem with the fonts, I dunno. Anyway, I’m dumping it for the time being. More [...]
A 16-year-old with a laptop
Here’s a story with several interesting themes: an enterprising young lady, someone who doesn’t fit in with the crowd, the power of the blogosphere and of web-connected PCs, virtual communities, and the courage to speak up for peace. It’s a nuanced, complex story. As I’m reading, I can feel my mind badgering me, begging me [...]
Miss one, get three!
I missed Paul Nation in Tokyo the other day, but thanks to sista k, I discovered a link to a TESOL online webcast Nation did recently sista k’s blog Teaching to Learn Japan Action Research, another EFL-er in Japan who is interested in vocabulary learning and teaching, and actually quotes a Question and Answer from [...]
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