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blogessor: February 2007
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007. There's a brave new blogiverse out there: scrapartists. In a recent post on her blog, Louann Reid posed the question, "Why not blog? You can visit Louann's blog by clicking on the Multiliteracies button at the bottom of my blogroll to the left (sorry, can't make links today because I'm posting from Safari). Scraplift=copying a LO design from another Life Artist. Journal=to write often lengthy captions near pictures on your LO. Is scrapbooking a literacy practice? Appropriated ...
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blogessor: November 2006
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006. What does it mean to say something works? A couple of weeks ago, I had a conversation with one of my students who is currently student teaching. She was sharing teaching materials she'd developed this semester. She was clearly excited because, as she put it, "What I love about these techniques is that they really work! The materials she described made my heart hurt: choral responses to vocab. words ("I can really see who knows the definitions and who doesn't! I've been conte...
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blogessor: reading beyond the provincial
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Monday, October 29, 2007. Reading beyond the provincial. It happened again. Today at the end of class, Rebecca’s students finished discussing the last third of their book club books. As part of that discussion, Rebecca asked them to think about a couple of questions—what their overall impressions of the book were and how their own backgrounds might influence those impressions. Are any of your parents divorced? Have any of you ever wished that you could be in charge of your own life? What does it look lik...
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blogessor: April 2007
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Hi, kiddies, guess who I am today: teacher or researcher or both? Wow, I have so. Much to say that I can't blog it all in one entry (SIDE NOTE: I'm trying to give myself permission to write shorter entries so that I'll post more regularly :). In fact, this entry started out as a comment on Rebecca's. Blog that was just going on far too long. Incidentally, you should go read that entry. Because it's a really good one. You manage the observant researcher with the dutiful teacher?
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blogessor: June 2007
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Thursday, June 28, 2007. How does your investment in your RQ and the students’ background about your topic affect the research? How does your investment in your RQ and the students’ background about your topic affect the research? But the next semester we ran book clubs, we wondered why we’d been so secretive. Why not tell them what we’re interested in, see how they respond to that premise, and let them reflect those thoughts from the very beginning as they set their book club norms? During Morning Pages...
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blogessor: rocking the vote
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Friday, September 05, 2008. My 19-year-old daughter has always been determined to make up her own mind, and this presidential campaign is no exception. She's oh so excited to be able to cast her very first vote. (They really ought to make a page for that in the baby book.). Despite my temptation to sway my daughter's judgment about where she should cast her vote, I sent her instead to the Pew Research Forum's website. Education platforms as stated on their respective websites. Http:/ www.bobbarr2008&...
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blogessor: January 2007
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Friday, January 26, 2007. Okay, so I've been away for so long, I forgot my username AND my password. Is that a bad sign? But I've decided that what counts is that I'm back at all. Even after a non-restful Christmas "break," an 80 page grant proposal, and being rear-ended by a drunk driver. (Stories lurk behind every item on that list, I assure you.). 1 some guest posts from my students last semester. 2 ongoing thoughts on the new book. 3 some musings on human plasticity. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Http:...
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blogessor: October 2007
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Monday, October 29, 2007. Reading beyond the provincial. It happened again. Today at the end of class, Rebecca’s students finished discussing the last third of their book club books. As part of that discussion, Rebecca asked them to think about a couple of questions—what their overall impressions of the book were and how their own backgrounds might influence those impressions. Are any of your parents divorced? Have any of you ever wished that you could be in charge of your own life? What does it look lik...
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blogessor: August 2008
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Monday, August 18, 2008. I'm writing this from my back porch. Late summer in CO = 74 degrees, light breeze, hummingbird hovering over the agastache that smells like licorice when I rub my hands against the leaves, and lots of green tomatoes on the vine. It's hard to tell how many of them will actually ripen. The sun is shifting to the south part of west these days, so frost isn't long in coming. Another (potentially) good sign: I'm making lists. I like to make lists. I like to check items off as I co...
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blogessor: more feedback needed
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007. A more specific question I have is this: Rebecca and I usually require some kind of written accompaniment to the visual group project that students turn in individually. Could the "traveling tips" work this way? Mapping the Terrain of Your Text* *. As your book club presents your map to the rest of the class, you’ll function as tour guides with 3 primary goals:. 1) to translate the icons on your map’s legend and explain your use of color and spacing. Geographical Features ...
