A Teacher’s Thoughts

I caught this New York Times article about Nick Haley, an 18 year old student in England whose YouTube video has become a produced and featured commercial for Apple. All the ingredients are there for a pro-sumer world story. A few of the lines that resonate most strongly with me as an educator […]

Changing what you do takes constant attention and detailed planning. Today, students took the lead with applying what they have learned about the tech tools we have used so far.
I wanted students, working in pairs, to post some pre-constructed comments on our class site. I knew they would not have time to […]

I just want to get moving…I have heard this several times lately from teachers involved in the KMS Bloggers project. Certainly this is no surprise. When we as teachers are engaged and learning it is only natural (and professional) for us to want to leverage those new ideas for our students. And […]

What a great day. My students are so very excited to join the Yes I Can Science International Space Station 2007 project. The kids worked so hard today to get logged in, begin updating their profiles and reading previous blog posts. I have emphasized to them that we are coming into this […]

This morning thirteen staff members here at KMS sat down to begin their journey into the world of blogging. As we went along and I listened to the discussion and heard the questions I couldn’t help but think of David Warlick’s K12 Online Pre Conference Keynote.
Walls are coming down…
David Warlick, K12 Online […]