CyberCamp 08

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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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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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I am by no means blazing a new path, but I am getting the feeling that the trail is moving into less treaded territory.  The Web2.0 tools that we are learning about are sure to be the “way it is done” in the not so distant future. My hope is that [...]

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I am by no means blazing a new path, but I am getting the feeling that the trail is moving into less treaded territory.  The Web2.0 tools that we are learning about are sure to be the “way it is done” in the not so distant future. My hope is that [...]

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I am by no means blazing a new path, but I am getting the feeling that the trail is moving into less treaded territory.  The Web2.0 tools that we are learning about are sure to be the “way it is done” in the not so distant future. My hope is that [...]

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost
I am by no means blazing a new path, but I am getting the feeling that the trail is moving into less treaded territory.  The Web2.0 tools that we are learning about are sure to be the “way it is done” in the not so distant future. My hope is that [...]

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In my never ending search for interesting items to use in my library and school websites, I came across a link that I believe Bud shared with us when I took his k12 online conference class last fall.  The main site is  CommonCraft, but I clicked on the link from that site that lists numerous [...]

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