So here I sit and what great speech will I give you for day one of your junior year at CBHS? I’m not quite sure but here are the top five reasons why I love being a Crew leader:
5. adolescents keep it real 24-7 365;
4. there is never a dull moment in Crew;
3. as I [...]
Welcome to the best Crew in the World!
September 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Where in the world wide web are schools going?
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
This presentation was delivered on July 25, 2008 from the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus as the culmination of Read/Write Web in the Classroom instructed by Alice Barr.
link to class wiki: http://satnamkev.wikispaces.com/
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iweb infinity
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments
I suppose web 1.0 was all about information output. Web 2.0 denotes a two way street of information. New York Times journalist John Markoff describes web 3.0 as the intelligent web. Also known as the semantic web, wikipedia claims web 3.0 will include tools such as “Resource Description Framework (RDF), a variety of data interchange [...]
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wordle
July 24th, 2008 · No Comments
Less than a Roshak, yet maybe its noteworthy that my heart’s in the corner. This was created when I pasted fifteen pages of journal entries into Wordle. Check it out after you drink some water. Thanks to Lisa Lingo for leading me to the artistic world of my words.
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Brakes, Gears and RSS
July 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments
Bikers=Readers
Bikes without brakes and gears, know as Single-speed bikes have made a come back. I’ve been told they require the rider to make their way around the streets and trail old school, using instinct and quick twitch response rather than the overly cautious and limiting brakes and gears of modern brakes. I interpreted David Parry’s [...]
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What if we listened?
July 23rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Karl Fisch’s blog, The Fischbowl provides a great history of tech-phobia in schools in the US. Here is a review of the most dreaded going to ruin the kids advances that leading leaders in education have complained about from the last four hundred years: slate, paper, ink, store bought ink, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, calculators, [...]
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North Cascades
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Why 18th century schools can’t use blogs
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
Jeff Utecht sets the record straight on the possibilities of education blogging. He writes, “if you do not bring the conversation back into the classroom, they are no different from assignments written on paper”. Time is a constant constrain in the classroom and possibly I reason why blogs are being used in limited short term [...]
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