Archive | May, 2007
Making Assessment Personally Relevant
In my previous entry, I wrote, I want my students to realize that learning is not about making your work conform to some standard imposed by the teacher. Learning is about creating your own standards and adjusting them based on your goals. Learning is about setting your own goals and monitoring your own progress. It is [...]
Continue reading...Towards a Personally Negotiated Understanding
20. May 2007
Earlier today, Christopher D. Sessums and I delivered our WiAOC 2007 presentation, entitled Personal Learning Environments - Exploring Teacher Professional Development in a Networked World. We used talkshoe.com to deliver our presentation. It was a good learning experience to use a Web 2.0 tool that we had never used before. Talkshoe.com allows participants to listen [...]
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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. May 2007
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