Posted on March 11th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
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
Posted on February 12th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
I haven’t taken the time to blog this week. I’ve been busy exploring, having conversations with colleagues, and trying to answer a question.
Here are some highlights of what I have been doing lately.
I was really excited by Christian Long’s manifesto, and his call for others to join him. I emailed him an idea I [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, Tech Among Teachers
Posted on January 14th, 2007 by bookwyrmish
We’re enjoying having Rand Whipple, master mind behind Box of Light Theatre, spending mornings with us for two weeks as “artist in residence” at our K-8 school, supporting our all school thematic study. Our thematic study this year builds on our previous year’s thematic study, and reflects our diversity initiative (there is a whoooole lot [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class, Tech Among Teachers, ethics, media
Posted on January 3rd, 2007 by bookwyrmish
Turns out, that’s a very good question. Better than you might think.
I’ve found this wonderful link to a series of “pictures that lie.” (I’ve been getting a feed on the newly added bookmarks of del.icio.us user LibrarianEdge and this site was added by LibrarianEdge today–Thanks!). I’m extremely excited, because I was looking [...]
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Filed under: Cool Stuff I Found To Share, My Middle School Tech Class, critical_thinking, ethics, journalism, media
Posted on December 28th, 2006 by bookwyrmish
I’ve been busy adding an art installation to my technology studio this week, and I’m really excited about it. Not only does it add warmth and interest to the studio’s biggest, blankest wall, I think it embodies what I want our students’ technology studio experiences to be.
Namely: Student-centered. World-aware. Definitely not flat–and [...]
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Posted on December 14th, 2006 by bookwyrmish
I’ve made contact with a Middle School 190 miles further south in our Susquehanna River Watershed. This Spring, both schools will be researching and collecting data on the Susquehanna, and I am hoping to help our students, and our faculty, connect.
I want our students to update the data from our original watershed study, but [...]
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Filed under: My Middle School Tech Class
