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21Classes and Personalized Spaces
This past term, my students and I used a new blogging platform called 21Classes. One of its most appealing features is the fact that, as a community, our class had its own blog portal – one communal page that displays all the most recent posts and comments. This home page is a kind of aggregator [...]
Continue reading...June is the Cruellest Month
Sunday, June 24, 2007
And so another school year has come to a close. The last four weeks have been very busy: marking, exams, report cards. After months of thoughtful engagement with my students and their blogs, I spent the last few days of this school year calculating medians and grade equivalents that my students achieved on a standardized [...]
Continue reading...- The Power of Feedback
- Assessment for Learning
- Learning Stories: Part I
- Downloading Evaluative Knowledge
- Britney: Where can I find examples of how you have used Lea...
- Britney: I am a Junior Kindergarten teacher in a play-based...
- Janet Bissett: Bravo! You make some excellent points. Feedback f...
- Jessica Boone: I enjoyed reading this post. I feel so strongly t...
- Lydia Parsons: This was a very insightful post! As a beginning te...
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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Thursday, July 19, 2007
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