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September 5, 2008

PodCorps.org, Citizen Journalism and StoryChasers

Affiliated with the 501(c)(3) non-profit Conversations Network, PodCorps is a: ...worldwide team of producers who record and publish interviews and spoken-word events that would otherwise be lost forever. Podcasters and videobloggers join PodCorps.org to learn, share experience with others and...

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September 2, 2008

What a great start to the new term!

The Principals concerned each had their own version of reality...

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August 29, 2008

What's the best way to ensure mastery of low-level content?

State and federal accountability schemes require that students master low-level academic content. Our decisions regarding how we structure our instruction to facilitate student mastery of that content strike to the very heart of what we believe about teaching and learning....

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August 28, 2008

What did you Upgrade over the Summer?

I'm writing this entry after the first day back at school from summer vacation (here in the USA). Only staff is here at school this week; students start next week. It's been a very busy day with barely enough time...

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August 26, 2008

Dear Teacher

This has appeared before but is still current. Teachers often wait years to hear from their students about how their instruction, mentoring and caring has impacted their students. Here is a guess as to what some might say....

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August 22, 2008

Keyboard practice and racing with Typeracer

Keyboarding is an important skill. I reflected a bit on cursive and keyboarding on the TechLearning blog a year ago this month in the post, "The New Cursive." Perhaps my comparison of cursive writing to keyboarding was not appropriate. The...

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August 19, 2008

Collaborative Learning: Just because you *can*, doesn't mean you *should*

For most people, and societies, the ultimate goal is absolute truth, not relativism.

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August 14, 2008

Blog Whisperer

My daughter and I were walking our new puppy the other day and talking about learning. I happened to say, "I'm a visual learner." To which she replied without missing a beat: "I think I learn best by listening." I...

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August 12, 2008

Studying to be a teacher, new options here!

I had a chance to talk and share with a preservice teacher today. For those of our international readers a preservice teacher is one who is still taking courses and hasn't been full-time in a classroom. An intern, a student...

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August 8, 2008

This is why we have so few laptop initiatives in Oklahoma

I had a conversation this evening with a professor from Oklahoma Christian University (OC) that broke my heart. As you may know, OC along with Abilene Christian University down in Texas are among the first colleges in the United States...

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