6/13/08
6/12/08
We make the road by walking...
What is left now is to just do. I will spend some time dedicated to tooling around with abit of everything we touched on this week in the months to come because I do think it will be incredibly useful to me. I would like to learn how to attach links from interesting websites to my blob...so that it appears like the instructors.
iTeach has been the best orientation, training, workshop, seminar, intensive I have experienced at UAF. Also, best snack food EVER.
iTeach has been the best orientation, training, workshop, seminar, intensive I have experienced at UAF. Also, best snack food EVER.
6/11/08
Ghost prompt
I searched the world over and could not find the prompt for the homework blogging assignment for this evening. Maybe it is to be at a later time. I am so impressed with this week. Some years ago I just don't think I would have had the patience to absorb so much but for whatever appreciated reason I am 'with it'. I am going to work on the blackboard option. It will be very challenging to teach its use to my particular brand of student but it doesn't hurt for me to learn how to do that to.
The only issue I have is my ongoing ambivalence with the internet life in place of person to person hanging out but our society seems quite suited to this kind of individualistic type of relating. It is not something that is huge in my region at this point. At the same time I love finding quirky sites and I'm a political junky so there is plenty for me to enjoy.
The only issue I have is my ongoing ambivalence with the internet life in place of person to person hanging out but our society seems quite suited to this kind of individualistic type of relating. It is not something that is huge in my region at this point. At the same time I love finding quirky sites and I'm a political junky so there is plenty for me to enjoy.
Testing scribefire
I am testing scribefire to find out if I downloaded it correctly and how it works.
Assessing assessments
The assessment process with my students is something I think carefully about. Being 'assessed' for knowledge is something that often triggers shame with many students which leads to shutting down. The understanding by design book added the Latin origin of the word, "assess" meaning to "sit with" the student. I appreciate this detail because it adjusts the 'tone' of the word and too places this process in relationship to the student which makes it more culturally comfortable for my students to consider that we are all 'in it' together.
Having said that I try to create assessment assignments which have challenge, familiarity, cultural openings (to allow their culture to have space), bridges to the larger world and some kind of interaction.
What I learned in thinking, reading and pondering the content of Tuesday's class is that I need to be clearer in my mind about relating all that to the kinds of assessment/assignments I give. I feel a strong consciousness about my role in bringing new 'outside' ideas and processes to my students...
Having said that I try to create assessment assignments which have challenge, familiarity, cultural openings (to allow their culture to have space), bridges to the larger world and some kind of interaction.
What I learned in thinking, reading and pondering the content of Tuesday's class is that I need to be clearer in my mind about relating all that to the kinds of assessment/assignments I give. I feel a strong consciousness about my role in bringing new 'outside' ideas and processes to my students...
6/9/08
Chris tells all
compelling:
That all this is most likely here to stay.
mysterious:
Impact on brain development. How this may also firm up the divides between people. The way we are chasing after young people who are establishing ways of communication that actually reflect their youth and too, their lack of wisdom.
want to know more:
How can I develop my own foundation of knowledge that I can build on...it all still feels or seems like a mishmash of learning things ahead of knowing some basics and then learning some basics...lack of order....or something.
couldn't agree less:
That we have to embrace this (not sure Chris is actually saying we should or shouldn't). Have to think about this one abit more. Actually I need to think about these questions some more.
6/5/08
The Most Interesting Things I Have Learned in the Last Six Weeks
I learned there is a pile of trash floating out in the ocean larger than the state of Texas and that is probably where my old addidas are. Growing food for gas may not be such a great idea. Dendrites matter. I was right about Scott McClellan and those who do his previous job.
6/4/08
What is so great about teaching?
Since I like learning and want to maintain a learning outlook, teaching is a great way to maintain that perspective. Teaching is as much a learning process as it is a 'teaching' or passing on information one. I enjoy communication within the atmosphere of a classroom because the rules of good learning allow many viewpoints to be equally shared and considered. As a matter of fact it is a necessity that it be so and thus many subjects are available to wonder about and inspect. Teaching and learning is how everything happens.
Why snag times?
Why snag times?
snag times "revolution from the gut" is the name of an underground newsletter I published while I was in grad school. It became arctic snag "revolution from ground below zero" when I moved to Alaska. The title came about this way. I was driving through Phoenix noticing billboards. One billboard depicted a mini skirted woman with incredibly long legs looking quite alarmed at a tear in her nylons. It was an ad for Leggs hosiery and the caption said something like, 'don't get caught with a snag in your nylons'. Since I was studying social work I figured that, at times, I might end up being a snag in the system. Hence the satirical and alas sometimes controversial dare I say notorious newsletter of said name.
snag times "revolution from the gut" is the name of an underground newsletter I published while I was in grad school. It became arctic snag "revolution from ground below zero" when I moved to Alaska. The title came about this way. I was driving through Phoenix noticing billboards. One billboard depicted a mini skirted woman with incredibly long legs looking quite alarmed at a tear in her nylons. It was an ad for Leggs hosiery and the caption said something like, 'don't get caught with a snag in your nylons'. Since I was studying social work I figured that, at times, I might end up being a snag in the system. Hence the satirical and alas sometimes controversial dare I say notorious newsletter of said name.
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