The Power of the Masses

Crowd Sourcing and Revolution

S is for Semantics: Harnessing the Power of the Masses
The Johnny Cash Project

Cyberbullying is insidious. It's easy to feel anonymous and powerful in the online world. As teachers we have to do all we can to get the message out. It's painful and life-threatening to be at the receiving end of bullying. Let's do all we can to help the students recognize that they have the power to delete it as well as perpetrate it.

History Day @ Your Library

I am presenting a Breakout Session at the History Day @ Your Library training for teachers being held at the MN History Center in St. Paul on November 10, 2010. I'm excited about sharing! The training I do is usually connected to technology, but this is simply using technology(the faithful data projector and laptop) to communicate ideas. I like to find the story in everything--it's her story, it's his story, it's their story, it's our story, it's HISTORY!
The Shelfari widget I just added on the sidebar has some of the picture books I'll be sharing with participants as starting points for a discussion of Debate and Diplomacy, this year's theme.
A picture book is such an excellent teaching tool, people shouldn't abandon it after third grade!

Amazing New Computer

April is National Poetry Month

Poetry--definitely a good place to visit in springtime...words and thoughts growing and bubbling inside of you and finding beautiful release in rhythm and rhyme. I think children are natural poets and should have the reading and writing and listening experiences that allow them to express themselves through the magic of poetry. I'm sounding very lyrical about poetry, keying on it's beauty, but of course ugly, messy, angry poems have their place too. Poetry helps us see and understand what is real and true. I remember a poem I wrote (which I'll share tomorrow) called "A Cup of Tea" which helped me uncover a whole new understanding of my childhood and the directions my life has taken since. I don't think writing in a journal could have done the same thing--I don't think months of therapy could have done it either. There's something about poetry that requires you to look for the "essential" core of an idea or a feeling and to remove everything else that doesn't belong.
With the complexity of my life and the workload I carry, I think I've just reminded myself that I need to spend more time in the company of verse.

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New Media, New School Year . . . and a New Resource | Edutopia

New Media, New School Year . . . and a New Resource | Edutopia

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