admin So here we go…let’s REALLY get around this messy job of educating our kids by just legislating away school access to not only MySpace but to any …commercial Web sites that let users create public “Web pages or profiles” and also offer a discussion board, chat room, or e-mail service. Including blogs, wikis, online gaming… … Read more
We’re finding it difficult to keep up with the edblogosphere, and the resulting silence feels strangely appealing. Maybe the answer isn’t trying to read and write more, but focusing on deeper, more meaningful engagement instead of adding to the overload.
Dear Tess and Tucker, For most of your young lives, you’ve heard your mom and we occasionally talk about your futures by saying that someday you’ll travel off to college and get this thing called a degree that will show everyone that you are an expert in something and that will lead you to getting … Read more
Interesting to use a post on distributed conversations to show how distributed conversations work. But we think it’s informative. Alan started this process description, but for our own clarification, we’re going to deconstruct our own. It seems very chaotic as we look at it now, but in practice it’s pretty flow like. The key, seriously, … Read more
Ok, look. We know we’re probably just beating our head against a wall here, but this kind of article really, really bothers us: “On Xanga, students make their life an open blog”. AAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH! Here’s a contest. Really. It’s easy. Show us how kids using Xanga are blogging. We’re sure there must be some students actually … Read more
Yesterday as we were driving our seven-year old daughter home from her gymnastics class she ominously announced that she wasn’t going back to school. “It’s so boring, daddy,” she said, and then proceeded to sing the word “boring” about 157 times to make sure we got the point. Now we know Tess is pretty smart, … Read more
From the “Throwing it Out There to See What Sticks Department” here are some very raw thoughts about the various types of Weblog posts for teachers and students and where they fit on our very indistinct blogging scale: – Posting assignments. (Not blogging) – Journaling, i.e. “This is what we did today.” (Not blogging) – … Read more