Leave A Little Love for Them
I’ve been teaching an awful lot of Google Mail and Calendar classes lately, as my school district is moving into its new email platform1. And I mention during these classes that students will have...
View ArticleSo I'm Going To Be Teaching This Class. And Could Use Your Help.
I like new frontiers. That’s why I’m excited to be participating in Karen’s attempt to create a School of Ed at P2P University this fall. It should be a neat opportunity to fiddle with what it means...
View ArticleIn Good Hands
One of the honors and privileges of my current position is that I get to work with some really smart people. I mean wise folks. The folks I want my children to learn with and from. # And I get the...
View Article"Pummeled by a Deluge"
Rebecca Blood, a lifetime ago in Internet time, : # We are being pummeled by a deluge of data and unless we create time and spaces in which to reflect, we will be left with only our reactions. # And...
View ArticleConnective Children. Nothing New?
This afternoon, Mary Ann and WIll were talking a bit about Kindergarten standards. I butted in.1 # And Mary Ann and I, and some others, worked our way into a conversation back and forth talking at one...
View ArticleThe Podcast: Two Fall Projects
In today’s podcast, I talk about a couple of projects that are keeping me pretty busy this fall – finishing my thesis and building with some friends from the NWP. Oddly, they go together. Which is a...
View ArticleTeaching in the Connected Learning Classroom
Recently, a project I spent some time on last spring and summer came to life. Teaching in the Connected Learning Classroom is now available for free download as a PDF or a 99 cent eBook via the Amazon...
View ArticleWhere’s Your Refrigerator?
A couple of years ago, when I was doing some regular work for an area art museum, my daughter, Ani, asked me if, on our next trip to visit the museum, it’d be okay if we took along some of her artwork...
View Article“Let’s Find Out,” Writes Cogdog
I’d never really thought about it, but I didn’t realize until a couple of weeks ago, when Alan Levine said that he’d be in the area and we should meet up, that he and I had never been in the same place...
View ArticleWhat’s This Digital Writing Stuff, Anyway?
I’m speaking tomorrow with my wife’s college course for preservice teachers on the teaching of writing. I’m the featured expert on “digital writing.” # Whatever that is. # Over the last week, the...
View ArticleFaking It
I’m working with a couple groups of teachers next week who want to explore the idea of blogging as a way of promoting inquiry and professional growth in their practice. As I’ve proposed to one group,...
View ArticleA First Draft in Two Voices
This is a post in two voices that lives in two places. You can read the other version on Katie’s website. In this version, Katie’s voice appears in italics. It’s been a few weeks now since Katie Henry...
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