http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=140 Download Participation is the Most Importat Part! TTT77 - 10.31.07 We were joined this week by Joyce Valenza and the co-founders of of Voice Thread, Ben Papell and Steve Muth (and many wonderful teachers in the chat room). In the spirit of producing content that is open to co-creation…
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http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=141 Download Digital Composing and the NWP Annual Meeting - TTT78 - 11.07.07 This is the first of two shows in November in which we are going to sandwich the National Writing Project’s Annual Meeting with two special Teachers Teaching Teachers webcasts/podcasts, one before and one after the Annual Meeting: Nov. 15"17, For this show [...]

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Today is one of several days out of the year when teachers are proctoring tests -- assessments that determine our school grade. This is so Orwellian that I don't know where to start to protest, so I just keep saying "No!" I don't do this loudly or even explicitly. My negative opinion about the testing-mandated-curriculum culture just seems to ooze out of me. Mainly I teach new things to students like blogging and podcasting and -- like now -- I'm setting up for a webcast tomorrow, instead of proctoring for a test. Unfortunately my attitude and teaching can't last long in a school, so I guess I need to be ready to keep looking again and again. Why can't I find a school that might be willing to re-think curriculum in such a way that computers are necessary to do the tasks we imagine for young people?

http://paulrallison.blogspot.com/2007/10/halloween-inquiry.html Halloween Inquiry

Here are some questions that we have begun to explore in our 7th Grade Technology class at East Bronx Academy for the Future. Please listen to our podcast, then add your answers to these questions:

What do you do on Halloween?
How does your community celebrate?
What are some of the best costumes you have ever seen?
Why do we celebrate Halloween?
Where does it come from? What's the history of Halloween?
Is it celebrated everywhere?
Is Halloween different in different countries?
What are some of your questions about Halloween?

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I'm still recovering from the wreck that stopped my curriculum as surely as the elevated subway stopped this truck, just outside of my school a couple of weeks ago.