Archive | July, 2005
How Not To Use Blogs in Education
James Farmer is compiling a list of “what not to do” when using blogs in education. My suggestion: Do not use blogs to replace writing or reader-response journals. If the only goal is to get students to write online what they would otherwise put in their notebooks, it’s probably not worth the hassle. Blogs can do [...]
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25. July 2005
I remember vividly the day when I first told my students about blogging. I thought I was very well prepared. I created a handout, talked briefly about community-building, explained how blogs work, and showed them some examples. The response was positive. They seemed excited and eager to gain access to their own world of self-publishing. Then, [...]
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Filmed at Glendale Secondary School in Mitchell’s Plain, a township outside of Cape Town, South Africa. The Teachers Without Borders team conducted workshops on ICT integration and Web 2.0.
Final video of the Virtual Classroom Project hosted on the Islands of jokaydia in April and June, 2008. For more information about the project, click here.
Screenshots of the Virtual Classroom Project are available here.
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Asides 
Karyn Romeis responded to my South African reflection by linking to her own African tale. Her words struck a chord because I returned from Africa (South Africa and Kenya) only a few weeks ago, and my experiences there profoundly changed me as a teacher and a human being. Her entry took me back to many schools and classrooms that I visited in Kenya as part of the Teachers Without Borders-Canada project.
Here’s a link to Karyn’s entry and to a version I annotated using Diigo.
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27. July 2005
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