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Continuing Ed Complications
The path unwalked. I am of two minds about continuing education courses that all teachers are required to take. They are exciting and frightening all at the same time. They force me to look at new...
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Whittled Nibs or Computers for Writing?
Reflecting back on my 1st week of school, part of me is amazed that we made it through! I had students missing from my class the first day, and students who showed up scheduled for my class who didn’t...
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Tools Must not be the Focus of Assessment!
In chapter 6 p 104 of Troy Hick’s book The Digital Writing Workshop, he talks about how “the tools themselves should not be the focus of the assessment.” Gosh, have I been guilty of that in the past!...
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Over my 22 years of teaching I have often felt about my pedagogy as the woman in the embedded video must have felt about flying. She loved it, and she knew she was the best for the job. It was...
View ArticleSouth Korea and digital books
I read a Yahoo article about how South Korea is ditching paper for digital books. This country is gambling 2 billion dollar$$ that touch screens and iPads will enable their children to better compete...
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Pew research loves to check into our lives and figure out how many of us are doing what amazing things! I just finished a Digital Trends article by Andrew Couts that explores a survey about video...
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