CyberCamp 08

The last day of camp is so hard, isn’t it?  Saying goodbye to fellow campers, packing up our mementos; the lanyards, the rock sculptures, the badges.  Then the inevitable bus that takes you back to the real world.
So what does the real world hold for us?  It is hard and scary and inevitable, change is [...]

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Well, here we are the last day of CyberCamp.  What do we have to show for it. 
I would say that more than anything else my mind, which was fairly open to begin with, has been pried
open.  With the loads of stuff that has been packed into the last two weeks I feel like it will [...]

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What a bittersweet day! I am very excited that I will be able to hang with my kids now, but I am very sad that I will not be seeing each of you every day. I have been challenged these last two weeks and it has been so much fun. I have loved each and [...]

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Early on in CyberCamp, I pledged that I was investigating the idea of connective writing as my project for CyberCamp, as I was hoping to use this experience to think about what a course on conenctiving writing would look like.
But I’ve pretty much spent my time at CyberCamp on, well, CyberCamp, instead of connective writing.  [...]

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Sometimes when you are in the middle of things you don’t realize what’s happening.   Thinking back to yesterday’s discussion with the AUTHORS of our text it suddenly occured to me how TOTALLY COOL the experience was.  I know that Sue has hung out with authors all the time but for me it was an unusual [...]

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If you wanted to return to yesterday’s conversation with Suzie Boss and Jane Krauss, or you missed it the first time around, I’m pleased to report that the recording of the session is now available.  I want to again thank Suzie and Jane for their time, thoughtfulness and investment in our learning, as well as [...]

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I just want to say that the last two weeks with you all has been a great experience that I will not soon forget. Becki and I are flying up north to a family emergency in about two hours, we are taking the red eye. When you approach our age this is expected..you never get [...]

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I recall one of the authors of our Reinventing PBL text referred to making decisions about curriculum, etc. in “comfortable anonymity”, and it struck me that I had made  decisions like that, quite often,  mostly because of circumstances; most tech teachers in SVVSD are a one-person department.  I recall her closing sentence, she now feels [...]

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What a daunting task that you have undertook, Joann….In fact, at some of the schools I taught at, we had a technology class and the students developed and maintained the web site. Of course, all ideas and the creative aspects of the site were closely managed by the instructor. It is amazing what these young [...]

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This is the twelfth WiP presentation from CyberCamp.  In this presentation, Joanne shares some of her thinking and research about her school’s website and websites in general.  Here’s the link to the archive of the chat from the session. Joanne’s portion begins approximately two-thirds of the way down the page.

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