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Classrooms as Third Places

8. September 2007

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On Monday, August 20th, Leigh Blackall invited me to give a short talk to his class on building online communities. I chose to focus on the steps that I take every September in order to prepare an online space for my grade eight students. I don’t see it as a process of building a community [...]

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Learning to Listen

11. April 2007

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A row of tanks rolled by in the distance, and two planes flew in the sky above her, although she didn’t see any bombs falling from them. Parvana didn’t pay them any attention. Tanks were normal. Bombs were normal. Why couldn’t eating be normal? They had salvaged what they could after the house was bombed. [...]

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