Posted in Web 2.0 on Nov 27th, 2007 No Comments »
As many of you have already heard, In Practice, is a finalist for best group blog in the Edublog awards. I have to say that some of the company we are paired with is rather heady, and impressive. If you are so inclined to vote for In Practice, or one of those other fine [...]
Posted in technology on Nov 26th, 2007 3 Comments »
I have over 8,000 categorized sites accessible to English Language Learners on my website. My site is used by hundreds of people each day — the 45 families in our Family Literacy Project , several of our mainstream English classes, many of our Special Ed classes, plus students from around the world. I often find a [...]
Posted in Practice on Nov 16th, 2007 No Comments »
Brian Crosby wrote about his classroom practice for publishing student writing, and he asked me to share how I handle blogging in my classroom. I enjoyed reading Brian’s post and the various comments left on it. My approach is a little different from what I see there and elsewhere that teachers have addressed the [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned on Nov 13th, 2007 1 Comment »
Recently, I spent a day with a first-year teacher in a school very different from mine. Arriving before the students, I did not notice anything surprising. However, as soon as the students began trickling in I could see that this was not the population with which I am familiar. These students were almost all white, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 12th, 2007 9 Comments »
I’m in my 27th year of teaching – the first half of those years were split between private Catholic schools and high income public schools – and for the last half at low income schools, also known as Title 1 or “At Risk” schools. I’ve almost always had some level of technology in [...]
