Note: I began this post literally over month ago on November 1, but wasn’t quite sure where I wanted to go with it after I told the story here. After receiving a comment asking me to write more on my...
View ArticleIs Your School Board Simply a Rule Board? Mine Isn’t!
On Saturday, I got a wikimail from one of my students with his homework attached. (His was one of 4 students out of 5 assigned that I received over the weekend.) Here’s what he said about going to...
View ArticleiPod Pilot
We have an iPod Touch Pilot going at our school. Well, we really have a mini pilot, since we only have 4 and we are trying them out with 7 kids. It’s been an interesting venture thus far, so much so...
View ArticleMy Half Time Pep Talk for 2009
I heard on May 2, 2009 on Twitter about a day for 24 Hours of Innovation. The quote on the web site said, ”We are happy to invite all bloggers to take part in the “My half time pep talk for 2009″...
View ArticleiPod Pilot Lesson- Station 2
On Thursday, May 21, 2009, ** Chris O’Neal ** brought a colleague from Fluvanna to observe my 3rd grade math students work with their iPods. The day before, I had discussed with my kids what they...
View ArticleWhat about the “backchannels”?
Recently I was one of a group of people in our system invited by our Superintendent to go to Alan November’s BLC 09 conference as a team to bring what we can back. I was honored and thrilled–and even...
View ArticleGrade Fog? Or Effective Grading?
This morning, @MattGuthrie and I were talking about how fast and furious #edchat goes and how we wish we could preprime the pump with some thoughts to get people thinking more deeply ahead of time. We...
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