Summertime is a unique time in the life of a teacher, at least in the life of this teacher.
a – it gives me time to take back my self after the non-stop of the school year.
b – it also allows for reflection on the teaching I have done and will do.
(c – and of course [...]
Image found on Wikipedia: Hopf Fibration and released into the public domain by its author, Davidarichter
I’ve stayed away from this blog for the past 2 days or so. I’ve been reading a crime novel, making a necklace, playing with my dog, doing suduko, unpacking and organizing, facebooking, and tweeting – basically keeping my mind [...]
Literacy is a topic close to my heart.
I became a teacher 12 years ago because I felt a call to do whatever possible to make sure that all children knew how to read. Since then, the theme has deepened for me, coming to mean much more than just knowing how to read.
Dennis and I recently [...]
“Today’s topic…self-construction”
KRS-One **audio from 1vibe.net, April 22, 2008
7 months ago (though I just discovered it) Clay Burrell wrote On Leaving Teaching to Become a Teacher:
More and more I wonder: is school a good place for teachers who want to make a difference in the lives of their students, and to the future of the world? [...]
Image: Hallelujah by David Farrant found on flickr
If you are reading this you must have landed here in the few minutes I am using to test my creation of a new database on the new server. kinda scary playing with mysql and php but I think I did it!
about to publish…the real test…
(This shoutout goes [...]
It was written a little while ago, but I only discovered it this morning – this magical poem by Kevin of Kevin’s Meandering Mind.
Listen to it here:
The Creator: A poem for three voices and one person (April 2007)
And go read it here.
Song for the Creator by Frederick McDonald. Image from imagiNATION where you can [...]
Here’s a fun site to create instant tag clouds based on 3 different sets of criteria:
text you type in
url of a site with a feed
del.icio.us user name
Here is one I created with this blog’s url:
I see a few possibilities for this:
Seeing frequently used words in websites or various texts, written by or for students
Vocabulary [...]
Integration by me: I realized this painting was ‘done’ when I had integrated colours from the daffodil’s cup into the petals.
Recently I wrote a post on digital literacy within the wider context of literacy and, in writing, touched on what I realize is central to my own teaching:
an essential question for educators today is how [...]
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