Collaborative Diagrams

Recently, Clarence was writing about using a simple matrix from the Medici Effect to thing about educational change. He then created a wiki to allow us all to join in the discussion. I love the entire project. My only frustration was that in a wiki, the information was no longer in a matrix, […]

Library Books Due Before Auction

That title goes with the article that was posted here. Unfortunately, it wasn’t meant for this blog. It was meant for my school blog. This is the second time this week that a blog post has gone to the wrong blog. The first one was because I posted from Flock and I neglected to use […]

Combining Blogging and Comprehension Toolkit

I’ve been using Heinneman’s “Comprehension Toolkit” created by Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis. It is really good stuff for really helping kids comprehend real texts. Then today I was reading Nancy McKeand’s post of her reflections on blogging with students this year. She blogged with her middle school reading students about what they were reading. […]

Lessons Learned from our Wikis

Journal WikiI’m learning a great deal from the two student wikis we have in use. The first one is the journal wiki that I’ve written about before except its lack of change notification. I received a good suggestion from Diane P; she is making great use of Nicenet and suggested that it might meet my […]

Stupid Grade Book Tricks using Easy Grade Pro

I started the year using Makin the Grade as my grading program. Our district has a site license so I invested in the OS X platform version and began using it. In the past, I have always created my own grade books using Excel. I’d merge these into our report cards which were in MS […]

Do You Have a Favorite Children’s Book?

What’s your favorite children’s book (besides Harry Potter)? If you have a few minutes, please go to my new Vaestro channel and tell us about it.

Vaestro is a new, free, online service that lets anyone set up a channel where people can have an asynchronous voice discussion. You don’t need to sign in or […]