August 2007 Blog Posts (173)

'Tis the season - time to think again of passwords. Here are some great tips from Dave Warlick...

• must have at least six characters
• must not appear in any dictionary
• must contain both lowercase and uppercase alphabetic characters
• must contain a number
• should contain non-alphanumeric characters such as !, #, $, %, ^, &, *, (, ), etc.
  
  
  
  From The Blogmeister - Dave…

Hi All,

I am going on an interview for a writing position in 6th grade. I am looking for any insight to assist in this interview process. I am super excited about the opportunity to be a teacher in the middle school atmosphere and to teach a writing class too; almost seems too good to be true!!

All insight welcome!!

I wanted to let you all know that I was offered the position and am extremely excited!!!

If anyone has any great tips I would be honored to…

I've been musing like so many on Classroom 2.0 about the implications of using new forms of technology in the classroom and how it can "enable" students. Meaning, in the full sense of the word "education", allow students to learn the basic skill which enable a citizen to contribute fully and positively to society (yeah, I believe in that, in Dewey).

So much of technology even at this present moment, is used as an adjunct, as a s"l"ideshow to the real lesson/learning. I think this…

I was just wondering if there were any other workshop presenters that were a part of this community. I am sure that many of you are doing professional development for your school districts. I am finding that that range of "use" is very large when my workshops are open to a large geographical area. I usually present in a hotel (very often for BER-Bureau of Education and Research) and participants come from small rural communities and from the large city schools in the area. I have had…

Schools are beginning to reawaken after a summer siesta - in North America and parts of Europe anyways. I’m still three weeks out from starting day and in the midst of a major house reno so I’m not really

thinking too much about school although it has drifted across my vision

a few times. The work on the house has taken me away from my pre-summer

attachment to the “Wrinkled world” and I’ve found that it has been

refreshing to do other things. Having said that, I have…

I am putting the finishing touches on displays for promoting a few ideas I have : Digi.raffe and iSURFFers. I want a student-designed mascot for my classroom. My students all know what it has to be - a giraffe. Digi.raffe is its name for lots of reasons, so I wonder what stories students will come up with on their own. Hmmm- another project-"How Digi.raffe Got its Name". ( I don't know if it is male or female:)

For my students - their new name…