Using Ning for Educational Social Networks
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a network for educational conversations: Fireside Learning
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Connie Weber Jul 26.
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- Emerson School
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- teacher, upper elementary
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evolution of a homeroom class, ongoing. March 26, 2008
It's been a few months since my last entry; the entries used to be weekly, as I adjusted to a new kind of teaching. Now, here I am just a bit later and completely on the "other side." There's no going back. This year my students and I have experienced a fundamental “shift” in education. We are not only a strong classroom community (in real time, face to face, here and now), we are also a strong networked community online. Our network is private. It's a ning network, only it's composed primari… Continue
Posted on March 29th, 2008 at 12:00pm —
Project Zero in action: an educational utopia, of sorts
I spent a couple of days with my study-group leader from Project Zero.
I went with her Alma College students up north. There we visited Long
Lake School in Traverse City Schools (of northern Michigan), a kind of
educational utopia. This is a school that applied for and received a
grant for educational transformation through the Department of
Education Arts Education Model Dissemination.
Students
at this school use "thinking routines;" they use them often, and well,
and at all ages. When… Continue
Posted on November 28th, 2007 at 7:24am — 2 Comments
some baseline questions
One month into the Switchover. Evolution of a homeroom class. November 20, 07
Some baseline questions:
What really constitutes copyright violations? Is this a nebulous thing? Are there rules that hold true throughout this flux of ownership, this age of extreme increase of information flow and accessibility? If someone could give me a simple answer, I'd be grateful. What's ok, what's not? What can we post, legally?
Can we post Youtube videos on our class network? (Why i… Continue
Posted on November 20th, 2007 at 2:55pm — 5 Comments
the evolution of a new kind of homeroom class
Just a few weeks ago I started a ning network for my homeroom class of 20 4th and 5th grade students in an independent school in Ann Arbor. The network is absolutely thriving. This is one of the most fascinating things I've every done in my 30 years as an educator. Already the network has become an extension of who we are as a learning community. I've begun thinking of it as nearly a living organism; it's an interactive embodiment of class expressiveness and thinking. It's also a piece of activ… Continue
Posted on October 28th, 2007 at 7:10am — 1 Comment
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Unfortunately I won't be able to share the showcase as the students just want the materials made available for the students within our institution at the moment and for when I do conferences etc.
We'll have to work a way around that next year in the projects that we develop - because I want their work to have much wider reach and connection.
What is your delicious log in name? Mine is carbru e.g.http://del.icio.us/carbru
If you are allowing your kids to access your delicious bookmarks, do you have a separate delicious account for them?
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Carolynn
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