A Teacher’s Thoughts

I have been thinking about this lately as I reflect on my own learning. Below is advice given to me by my graduate advisor (I studied Zoology). Try not to take classes. Pick an area you love. Figure out what is important. Read everything on that topic. Build a network of people who are working [...]

I’ve been filtered and by my own district. I received this email from a teacher at our new high school I thought you’d enjoy the fact that your blog is blocked (a teachers thoughts) because it contains banned words. This followed a discussion about “Linkin’ (B)Logs: A New Literacy of Hyperlinks” by Tiffany J Hunt [...]

I had a brief conversation with the music teacher at our school yesterday. Her classroom is well equipped with computers and she has students work on projects using midi software. I suggested the idea of podcasting student projects and performances. The response was so positive. If you could see our school at this time you [...]

Whenever I pull out my science frameworks, I am always amazed at the amount of content and the apparent unrelatedness of it all. I have worked with standards in three states and it seems to be the same each time. Training and best practice say to dig deeper but the standards, so broad in coverage, [...]

It has taken a while but I am starting to cross things off my to-do list. Going back and reading things I didn’t have time for earlier is an ever present item on this list. I don’t remember how I found my way to this article or how it found its way to me, but [...]