Just read an outstanding post by Barbara Ganley, entitled
“Teaching the Blog, Blogging the Teaching� . I gotta say, it is a joy to be able to follow such written thoughts. Ganley’s post explores both the foundation of teaching practice and the use of social software.
Her thoughts of her own learning experience echo [...]
Entries from January 2006
January 17, 2006
Zen and the Art of Teaching (Or, Holding Go and Hanging On)
January 16, 2006
Teaching Old Tricks to New Dogs…
I just read a pretty amazing post that has my brain whirring… Ewan McIntosh has been gracing my blog with a few comments as of late, so I felt compelled to check out his blog. Yikes.
Sorry, not a very formal review, but his post entitled “Socialising, Identity 2.0 and education� is pretty mind [...]
January 10, 2006
Blogs as a Potential Portfolio Delivery Format…
In order to try and stoke the embers of my floundering blog thougths, I have dug through some past notes that were posts-to-be. I found a few gems, one of them being from Aaron at Teacher in Development entitled “The Eportfolio� . I had commented on the post, but would like to [...]
January 7, 2006
Christmas Reading List
Here is a list of the paper-based texts I experienced while relaxing over Christmas break:
Walk On: The Spiritual Journey of U2 by Steve Stockman. –> An exhaustive exploration of the U2 anthology, from their genesis to current work. I had surreal moments of listening to Zooropa and reading about the same [...]
January 5, 2006
Blog Block…and the Importance of Philosophy in Delivery
I have been feeling a real lack of inspiration as of late around blogging. A little tired of reading about edblogging and the fancy toys out there. I purposefully took a break over the Christmas holidays from blogging, but have found the return to be a step into blog block.
Perhaps this is partly to [...]
January 4, 2006
Student feedback on the importance of Blogs…
Thanks to Konrad G. for mentioning an intriguing article on the importance of school Blogs to students ( “What if Your Blog was Gone?” ). I am wading through categories with my lit. students on the team blog in trying to find a better way to format the blog. [...]
