Classroom Moments

Storybird Storybird is a visual storytelling site that allows users to create stories around sets of pictures or themes. In their words: Storybird reverses the process of visual storytelling by starting with the image and “unlocking” the story inside. Choose an artist or a theme, get inspired, and start writing. At the culmination of our [...]

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Give up control: IB English Blog

My seniors (IB English A1) started blogging two weeks ago (North HS IB English), and I think it’s been successful so far.  We had been writing in paper journals, but in an effort to make our process more collaborative, transparent and paperless, I moved the writing to a blog.  We also go up to the [...]

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I.B. Blogging

    It’s amazing all the ways my IB (International Baccalaureate) kids can use the name of their program to be witty. And I just tried and failed… I came back from educon feeling frisky and told my senior IB English kids about my weekend, about my twittering, and about how they were about to [...]

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What do you love to hear in your classroom?

I’ve been sifting through all the reflective posts (via @butwait) following last year’s Educon in order to prepare myself for the onslaught of information. In reading Jon Becker’s piece The Logic of “Our” Arguments I was really liked these lines: For me, first and foremost, schools are in the business of preparing kids to be [...]

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Nothing left to do but Act

I started using Twitter in earnest just a day or two after the last Blog 4 Real Education Reform took place. I started reading about PLN‘s soon after, and started blogging by the end of November. In two months I have learned more from “the internets” than in-house face-to-face PD has taught me in as [...]

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