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Comment on The last-best-thing you’ll ever not want to do on a Saturday by Cat Flippen

Cat Flippen — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:06:20 +0000

It was such a pleasure to really connect with you during my session and find someone with similar perspectives on emergent topics. I am very much looking forward to learning from and with you in the future! Thank you for such energizing opinions and ideas!

Comment on The last-best-thing you’ll ever not want to do on a Saturday by Nikki Robertson

Nikki Robertson — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 12:23:20 +0000

Let’s do both : ) I’ll cross post this to the EdCamp Atlanta blog and we will look forward to your retrospective in a week or two. BTW: Wanda and I will hunt you and Paula down to help with EdCamp Atlanta 2013! LOL!

Comment on The last-best-thing you’ll ever not want to do on a Saturday by Kathy D Shields (@KathyDShields)

Kathy D Shields (@KathyDShields) — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 09:59:53 +0000

Nikki, Sure you can use this post, or let me write something else as more of a retrospective in a week or two. Thanks for the comment and for your hard work pulling off the first ever EdCampATl! I’m very happy I was able to get involved.

Comment on The last-best-thing you’ll ever not want to do on a Saturday by NikkiDRobertson

NikkiDRobertson — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:31:48 +0000

This is a great blog post. We are so happy that you and Paula decided to wake up early on a Saturday and join us. Our next goal is to recruit you both to get EdCamp Atlanta 2013 going full throttle! Your talents are amazing and we feel cheated that we didn’t tap into your amazing talents earlier! Can we please post this to the EdCamp Atlanta Bog site???? Please????

Comment on Inspired Classroom Upadate – Wiki for Texting by Kathy Shields

Kathy Shields — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:43:14 +0000

Hi Karen,
You made my day! I checked out your website and blog and I think adding a wiki to the mix will seem very natural and get your students even more engaged if that’s possible. I should probably write a post on the best way to introduce a wiki to the classroom because I have learned a thing or two. First of all, I explain that we are going that we are going to be sharing a website that will be like a bulletin board for the world to view. We read together the contract I wrote. Next, students take the pledge and sign it agreeing to follow the rules with the understanding that they may lose their priveledges.

I don’t pass out the user names and passwords until everyone has returned the parent permission slip. I also email the link to parents so they can look at the wiki. Most parents don’t really know what it means until their child starts touring them through their first few pages. My parents have been enthusiastic supporters of the wiki this year because it truly is a window into the classroom. It helps them to start conversations, ask questions and feel better informed. Start with an activity that involves posting comments and then review proper commenting and the purpose for commenting. I know some teachers have a commenting rubric. I just have some examples. Well, that was nearly a whole post. I will expand further on another day. Let me know how it goes.

Thanks again. Kathy

Comment on Inspired Classroom Upadate – Wiki for Texting by Karen

Karen — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:12:01 +0000

Hi Kathy
I teach third grade in San Diego and I visit your class website periodically. I’m inspired by you.

This month I’m going to start a class wiki. I hope to use it for writing, reading response, math and perhaps even our science observations. How did you introduce it to your students? Are there any major issues that came up when you first introduced it?

Thanks for being so inspirational…

Karen

Comment on Refrain from Critical Thinking by Edit Ostrom

Edit Ostrom — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 13:42:37 +0000

Hi, Kathy,

Loved your post! Loved the Groucho Marx quote too. I know you can be very critical of yourself, but not all teachers are like that! Let the laid back, lazy ones be self-critical.
By the way, I first thought that you were going to write about critical thinking skills in students but it turns out I was wrong. Teaching critical thinking is one of the most difficult tasks. I hope “critical thinking” won’t educate future politicians of the kind that Groucho speaks of!

Comment on Do you share my pet peeve? No Subject. by cartoonsbysheila

cartoonsbysheila — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:56:19 +0000

I’m into pet peeves and pet hates too – big time! If you’re interested, you might check out my cartoon blog at http://www.cartoonsbysheila.wordpress.com
Cheers, Sheila

Comment on Local Appen Newspapers Value Teacher Education by Dione Mccleveland

Dione Mccleveland — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 16:45:10 +0000

Wow, thanks. I have been looking for information on this all week. I really wish there was more info about this. Greatly appreciated

Comment on My Daughter’s High School Bans iPODS by ripplingpond

ripplingpond — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:47:37 +0000

Thanks for the wake up call! I do love the idea of equating household chores with listening to music and I have been questioning my past outrages in light of my own experiences with binge technology issues. In fact just today I was sharing a Ted.com video with a friend, which lead to a related youtube video of the same individual. There, I heard something that relates directly to your post involving productivity or the lack there-of due to multi-tasking.

The speaker, Tim Ferriss, a productivity expert, claims to have some hard evidence suggesting that productivity is impaired by electronic-multitasking more so than some unlikely alternatives. To hear what he has to say, just go to this video and forward to the 3:20 minute spot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX3eJRwJqlc

In addition, I just completed the book The Upside of Irrationality which in part makes the case for longer focus time on tougher tasks. In other words breaks are detrimental to productivity! haha, That might appear to be obvious but when you observe life practices, you see that many people consider breaks a requirement and a way to recharge their brains. Are we too easy on ourselves?

Thanks for your comment. Do you have a blog? If so, you should post the link next time you make a comment so that I can benefit from your thinking out loud on a regular basis.