Archive for August, 2008

Using Skype for ELL

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

On we go. Doctoral classes are beginning, and my 4th grade class has started the 2008-09 school year. Always a surprise with each new year… this year, Norberto arrives in our class. He speaks no English and we have absolutely no program, materials, or plan for non-English speaking students.  But a challenge is always welcome, [...]

Online with PBL

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

I had a great time on July 24 being the guest speaker in an Elluminate online session on project based learning. This was done through Classroom 2.0 - other sessions are shown in the schedule at this link: Classroom 2.0 Live Conversations.
This was a public event, but also targeted to Jane Krauss’ project based learning [...]