Archive for July, 2008

Kid Learning Communities

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

As we read about and discuss various communities, I want to examine what is happening in my own classroom. We have different forms of community involvement — the embedded video shows how learning centers function in my grade 4 classroom. Once students have learned the basic process, they follow a schedule, and I roam the [...]

What is “Attention?”

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Howard Rheningold video looking at what it means to be at least as interesting as the Internet while teaching in a classroom..

The Journey Begins …

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

A starting point.
This Wordpress blog is basically a beginning, not that I haven’t used blogs before, but in this case, I have installed on my own server and will have more control of what I can do with the space: adding plugins, tweaking and uploading files, and so forth. It also means more time — [...]