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Classrooms as Third Places
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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11. April 2007
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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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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8. September 2007
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