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Blogging as “An Experience”
I believe that when students are part of a class blogosphere - a community of writers and learners - they experience a learning process that occurs continuously. It does not stop when the lesson ends. It does not stop when the assignment is completed. It goes on. Since blogging does not naturally lend itself to [...]
Continue reading...Dialogic Texts - Part 1
24. February 2005
I’m re-reading Todorov’s Mikhail Bakhtin. The Dialogical Principle. Below are some of the passages from Bakhtin’s writings that I find especially significant. No utterance in general can be attributed to the speaker exclusively; it is the product of the interaction of the interlocutors, and, broadly speaking, the product of the whole complex social situation in which [...]
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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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