Friday, March 9th is the last day of the Reflective Writing Club of #CCCWrite from @ONE . The last prompt reflects on the journey we’ve all taken. As always, courses like this are flexible, so members participate as they can. Each week, as I read…
Unplug! Unplug? Today many are concerned with the amount of time spent plugged in, detached from the “real world.” Yet, so many of us connect for “real” reasons and with “real” people. So, how do we contain this thing, this “unplugging?”
New Word: Biutiful
Definition:
“mistake that makes you grow as a person, and hopefully become a better one”
I learned to change shoes when needed, to step together with my students, listening to the beat of their traditions, ancient and modern.
“It’s every teacher’s dream. Students are no longer writing for a grade or for their teacher. Instead, they are writing for their peers and generating their own topics. Can this really be possible?”
For thirty-one years, I taught in a public, rural PK-8 elementary school. Past or present, first grade or eighth grade, my goal has always been for students to own and create their own learning. Together, we created the environment and…
Another week is almost gone for the Reflective Writing Club of #CCCWrite from @ONE. I’ve not read all the posts, but have learned so much from the sharing of our two prompts so far: Week 2: Discuss the role that attending conferences…
Conferences Pre-2009 The topic for #CCCWrite from @ONE is conferences. Discuss the role that attending conferences plays in your professional learning Reflect on one valuable conference experience you had and discuss why you found it valuable. Let us know what…
Twitter, Really webinar by the ONE team explained the ways and whys of a Twitter user — how tweeting, retweeting, following hashtags, and replying connect the user to others in a reciprocal relationship of connected learning. I’ve written about Twitter…
With a smart phone in hand, access is available for free lessons, communities, apps for art, and publication. That’s pretty awesome
In our reflections, we’ve grown to be fearless in sharing in order to build relationships, no matter the rainstorms around us — because there is value in our voices that will help us all learn.
I see in hashtags, replies, retweets, and URLs that this day I was working on information based on my mentoring work.
A Thing To Consider Brett Gaylor with Mozilla Advocacy reminds us that this new internet is “like life, a thing to consider” and without this internet, our freedom of access to information would be so different. Our Parts So as I…
