Learning and Laptops

In most English classes, inventing new verbs is reserved for confused students. However, in English 9 honors , wikified has become a univers...

Margaret emailed me this in response to an incredibly long email I sent her regarding my AR project: “This is your action research and you m...

In your ARP, are your learners engaged in their learning? Why or why not? In my ARP, my students are engaged in their learning at times. I ...

Note card reflection 2/11 after the received dual feedback from Randon and I on intro -1. This is the first time the kids are writing such a...

Note card reflection 2/18/09 Only 11 of the kids had completed the writing up to this point on their change the world position paper to rece...

Randon , the student teacher Kristin Leclaire and I have this semester, has made it through the half way point. He surely deserves a party ...

This blog is the third in my set of three interviews I completed as a result of the multiple revision policy for my AR project. The first t...

Last week I interviewed two other sets of kids about their reactions to our work in cycle two with the multiple redo policy. As I previousl...

Randon Ruggles , my student that I share with Kristin Leclaire , and I reflect each day after school about how the day went. We take the tim...

I completed the first set of interviews with two students who volunteered to expand on the survey results from cycle 2’s focus of the multip...

Hopefully I can remember to split this blog into two posts, but in case I forget, there is so much going on with cycle 2 and 3 of my AR. I ...

For your ARP, how did you select the technologies that you are utilizing? How have your learners responded thus far? For my AR project, we h...

I am just plain confused on what to do. Although I began my cycle three focusing on Randon and helping him become a more successful learner/...

Blog: As learners, we are often focused on completing assessment activities successfully as opposed to acquiring the outcomes indicated by t...

Abrash began the conversation so that we could look over where he was in his AR work and what questions we had from him. We encouraged him t...

What is the purpose of education? Sir Ken Robinson asked us this question while we were watching his TED talk. Mr. Fisch has already writ...

Randon and I met today going over the intro paragraphs the freshmen submitted for their position paper project. I took the weekend to write...

I feel like I always tell my students about what a different world they live in and how amazing the web is at helping them learn. Over this ...

Blog: Identify a standard that impacts your local environment or practice. Reflect on the value of the standard and its intended affect on s...

This weekend Randon and I began the cycle three part of my/our AR project. Since he gets to be part of this new journey, not only is he stu...