Tag Archive | "collaboration"
Zotero + IA
If you haven’t already heard, some exciting news (and two clarifications) from Dan Cohen: I’m pleased to announce a major alliance between the Zotero project at the Center for History and New Media and the Internet Archive. The Zotero-IA alliance will create a “Zotero Commons” into which scholarly materials can be added simply via the [...]
Continue reading...Lesson Plans for Google Docs
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Google and Weekly Reader’s Writing for Teens magazine have put together a few lesson plans to help teachers and students use Google Docs for collaborative writing. The lessons provide instructions for using Google Docs, student-oriented suggestions, tips, and checklists for working through an online, collaborative revision process, and an educator’s guide. Helpful stuff. The lesson [...]
Continue reading...Working Thesis
Monday, November 5, 2007
My “working thesis” for an upcoming presentation (the notes are still in process as of this post): Online writing tools that allow for asynchronous and/or collaborative writing can help improve the fluency and reflection of student writers in all disciplines provided the instructors facilitating the use of these tools have a clear and practical understanding [...]
Continue reading...Grading with Google Docs
Monday, October 29, 2007
I’m teaching a dual-enrollment freshman composition course through NVCC, the local community college. The course lets high-school seniors take the introductory college English courses in place of typical “English 12.” We’re fortunate enough to be working in a computer lab, so I asked the students to set up Google accounts and work with Google Docs. [...]
Continue reading...Can It Happen Here?
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
It’s been an interesting couple of years for me, wading around in the online education discussions. I’m wondering, though, if we’re making any progress toward genuine reform (beyond what the cool tech tools are and how they can be used … or sharing lesson plans and personal experiences). It seems to me that substantial progress [...]
Continue reading...Volunteer Ed-Tech-ing
Saturday, September 1, 2007
School starts in Prince William County next week. Even though I’m not teaching at Woodbridge High this year, I’ll still be helping my former colleagues with their online needs, which means I’ve been spending time thinking about what the students will need this year in their courses and how best to meet those needs. What [...]
Continue reading...Maybe They Don’t Need It
Friday, August 24, 2007
As I make (and re-make) plans for some extended travel, I’ve found myself thinking about the web presence I’ve built for the Northern Virginia Writing Project that will soon pass into the hands of someone else. However, before I let go, some changes need to happen to better address three goals: simplicity, collaboration, and reality. [...]
Continue reading...On the Phone with Zee
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with Ziad “Zee” Muhmood, one of the minds behind the still-in-development TTeach site. He called from his London base and we spoke for nearly an hour about both the technology and the vision behind TTeach (which he pronounced as just “teach”). For anyone curious, I thought I’d share [...]
Continue reading...Using Joomla in the Classroom
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Update/Note: This post has been re-written to reflect that I no longer teach using this site. In addition, the site detailed in this post used Joomla version 1.3. Therefore, some of the capabilities and limitations of Joomla described below may no longer apply. Also, the example websites described below are no longer active. I keep [...]
Continue reading...Helping Students Cheat
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
I’ve been thinking lately about the difference between teaching knowledge and teaching skills. As the internet changes how we find and use knowledge, it becomes increasingly clear that what we should be teaching are the skills: research, critical analysis, writing, reading a variety of texts, speaking and presenting, etc. When I hear teachers bemoan the [...]
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In the Set of All Factors, Money Wins
This chart pretty clearly illustrates the correlation between student performance and socio-economic status: I have no interest in defending ineffective teachers, but we also have to talk honestly about what schools can and can’t do to help students. I don’t doubt that the effectiveness of a teacher is the single largest factor in determining a [...]
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The Impermanence of Digital
Simon Winchester, commenting on the fact that the Oxford English Dictionary won’t be reprinted and future editions will only be available in digital formats: The printed book is about to vanish at extraordinary speed … Books are about to vanish; reading is about to expand as a pastime; these are inescapable realities. In practical and environmental [...]
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It’s Popular because It’s Easy
Marion Brady presents two theories of learning and suggests that the one currently driving reform is based on the notion that learning is all about transferring information from books and teachers into the empty brains of students. No research says how much of what’s recalled at test time remains permanently in memory, nor to what [...]
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Monday, December 24, 2007
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