Wes Fryer on Nuggets from NECC 2008 said
Hyperlinked writing is the most powerful form of writing, and provides one of the most important aspects of complexity in writing for a global audience. There is great power as well as responsibility when you link to the ideas of another.
Wow! A brand new way of writing… a [...]

by Lori Menger, Reading Teacher
Charting a New Course for the Upcoming Year
With the desire being to build on the successes, repair any damage from the storms, and set a course to assure arrival at the destination, the design team considered the successes and failures and set a new course for the 2008 school year.
First addressed [...]

By Lori Menger, Reading teacher
Weathering the Storms
Like any long voyage, this plan certainly encountered some storms along the way. In order to effectively evaluate at the end of the school year it was necessary to look closely at the challenges to effectively chart the course for the next year.
In Florida late summer and early fall [...]

By Lori Menger, Reading teacher
Smooth Sailing
As part of the plan the design team evaluated progress at the end of the school year, using their own observations, feedback from teacher and parent surveys, and information gathered informally during teacher evaluation conferences and staff meetings. Following are what were deemed to be the successes experienced during the [...]

By Lori Menger, Reading Teacher
Charting the Plan

Considering all the above factors a plan for the coming year was developed. The design team included two teachers, the principal, and the vice principal. It was decided the weekly computer and drama classes would be discontinued, and the time would be commandeered for academic instruction. Technology and drama [...]

Lori Menger, an amazing Reading teacher, has taken the time to document the Technology and Drama integration changes that have taken place at our school over the last school year.  With her permission, I am posting her paper here, since I feel others could benefit from her honesty, perspective and insight.
Setting Sail on a New [...]

Day 13: Write a Blog Post Using Comments
From what I’ve seen so far, during the past two weeks, most of us have expanded our commenting awareness in some amazing ways. We’ve discovered new blogs and are interacting more than we might have in the past, which is one of the great things that happens when [...]

Yesterday, during our last technology professional development workshop of the year, I introduced a group of our elementary school faculty to the concept of a custom Google Search Engine. Everyone present was invited to be a collaborator and created (if they did not have one) or signed into their google account. I created a step-by-step [...]

Photo by Nathan Gibbs
In the first out of three interviews by Alan November with Dan Pink, the author of “A whole new mind”, Dan Pink talks about how his own children attend an International school in Washington.
The reason behind the choice for this school was that it is a bilingual school. Since his wife and [...]