Re:Framed Re:Mixed: Solutions to Student Blogging Issues
Originally posted on S/Z:[cc image by flikr user: web4camguy ] I’ve been blogging in one form or another since 2001. I started my first blog as a place to…
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Wow… edcampHOME. Were you there? I hope you stopped by even for a few minutes to watch the adventure unfold. An experience like #edcampHOME deserves a big metaphor and while […]
View ArticleIncrease Innovation in Teaching and Learning by Taking “The Low Road”
Standing in a museum you stare transfixed at a unicorn completely submerged in formaldehyde. Shaking your head, you walk outside only to narrowly avoid being clipped by a driver-less car […]
View ArticleThings That Suck: Twitter Chats (Let’s fix them)
In my class you can’t use the word suck, but there’s an edcamp session called Things That Suck that has become VERY popular. It started with Dan Callahan, got bigger with Bill Selak and I’ve […]
View ArticleGoogle Booth Babe Tells ALL
My parents always warned me about accepting mysterious offers from strangers, but I’ve always been a bit naive and a hopeless romantic optimist. If you had asked me if I […]
View ArticleThe pUnK35T edcAmp: edcampLA & TEN new session ideas yOu shOuld try
Once a month I walked through the gates of hell. I saw a girl get her faced torched by a can of AquaNet hair spray. I saw kids getting beaten […]
View ArticleRescuing the Rat in a Blender: Saving Teens, Teachers, and Social Media
I was fifteen-and-a-half and hadn’t run away from home yet. After a year of Catholic high school I felt lost and confused. My parents had originally pulled me out of […]
View ArticleWhat’s in your EDU Go Bag?
Twenty years in the classroom. Twenty years of making lesson plans, hoarding articles, videos, books, and ideas. This summer I started going through my cabinets and files and making the […]
View ArticleShop Talk: The Nuts And Bolts Of Student Blogging
People always ask me to give them the nuts and bolts of how I teach my students to publish their work online. I’m always hesitant because I hate when people […]
View ArticleBoss Fight: Fighting Conspiracy Thinking
If you’ve ever played a video game, like Pokemon Black/White, you know that the most challenging parts are the “boss fight” parts. Boss fights seem unbeatable. They seem like a […]
View ArticleTeacher Tool Talk: The best presentation tool you aren’t using
In August of 2003 the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, among it’s many findings on the cause of the Columbia disaster, pointed the finger at NASA senior management requiring the engineers to...
View ArticleThe Yin to Twitter’s Yang: The PLN all teachers need
After months of harassment by my fellow teachers (@gochemonline @clonghb) I finally joined Twitter last summer. It has been a revelation. This tweet sums up how many teachers who use Twitter regularly...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of the Course: What Star Wars can teach us about student...
A month ago my principal walked in my classroom after school. The smile on his face made me instantly feel: But he just wanted to chat. We talked for a while and just before he left I asked him. “How...
View ArticleFalling from the Plank: Why Teacher and Student Blogs Fail
My hands were freezing this morning. The heater was off all night, I woke up a bit early after a bad dream and cranked on the computer. It was too cold to have both hands uncovered by my blanket so...
View ArticleTwitter Chats: How to survive and thrive in a Twitter Chat… hockey style eh?
*crucial update 1/11/14 see below and I also included a 1/12/14 update with how to get RID of SPAM! So you’ve never done a Twitter chat eh? Twitter chats are pretty crazy. You want to know how crazy....
View ArticleA Feedly User Guide: Great for following student blogs and replacing Google...
So you have a student blogging project and it’s overwhelming to keep track of them all? So you are going to miss Google Reader and you are looking for a replacement? I got your answer right here-...
View ArticleThe Re:Framed Project: Student Blogging Do’s and Don[u]ts
*updated 3/2014 with additional resources If you want to create a prolific writer you need two things- first you need an authentic audience, second you need motivation. When I was in college my wife...
View ArticleMaster of the Flying Guillotine: Three keys to KILLING boring professional...
Let’s face it. If you have just one arm pretty much anything you do is going to stick in people’s head. Some may even call you heroic for doing things that aren’t expected of you. But to be a true...
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