My children have led me into new uses of technology ever since they were little. It’s happened again!
The Back Story
12 years ago, when we brought my two older boys away from school for half the school year, to rural New England, we learned how to get a computer in the public library to [...]
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Filed under: Autreat, Differences, Information Literacy, Neurodiversity, media, social
Welcome, by the way, to those people reading my blog from Mobile Learning or Point blog! It’s really neat that people have found their way here from those sites. I continue to be grateful and thankful for the peer network and feedback I have found at classroom2.0’s ning site.
I’ve been commiserating with my peers [...]
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Filed under: Tech Among Teachers, education, media
Students are really enjoying this exercise!
Siblings have been enjoying commenting on sibling blogs (”You never tried octopus, how can you say you like all seafood?”)
Some students find it frustrating not knowing who made a comment.
Students are replying to comments on their “blogs” and inviting conversations.
Students are discussing the pros and cons of keeping negative or [...]
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Filed under: Body Image, My Middle School Tech Class, media, paper blog, social
It’s one way to get connected to a larger community. It can be used for educational purposes. It can be used to establish fleeting, or short-term relationships (”Can anyone out there tell me…?”) or it can be used for longer, mentoring relationships. It can also be a time-sink, abused, dangerous, unsafe.
I could be [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, education, media, paper blog, social
Ok, now that student evaluations are finally done…I am going to post those links to images that I find helpful, especially for inspiration,when talking with middle schoolers about making video. I’m really posting this for my own benefit (to have these links to video handy for next year)–which begs a question that I’m wrestling with [...]
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Filed under: Avatar, Cool Stuff I Found To Share, Machinima, My Middle School Tech Class, Web3D, media
Our Middle School students are putting together an informational booklet about our school’s solar panel installation. The student tasked with writing the introduction submitted this uniquely colorful page:
Notice that the color is washed out at the beginning and the end? His introduction and conclusion are quite faint. The topic label, and the [...]
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Filed under: Composition, My Middle School Tech Class, education, media
