Organic Learning

Herman Wood, of the Cobb County School District, co-presented with his colleagues on Monday at NECC on how he helped facilitate a project in his district using a blogging service to have students create fictional journal entries for various historical figures. Students researched their designated historical figure, then created journal entries on a [...]

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I arrived without a hitch in the airport at Atlanta yesterday. From reading the posts in Hitchhikr, it seems many from around the country are beginning to arrive also. Mark Wagner wasn’t as lucky as me. His plane, coming from the John Wayne airport, had to be redirected to Los Angeles. At last post, he [...]

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I’ve published the first in a two part series of a conversation I had with Mr. Howard Johnston, a literacy coach at Corona Ave. Elementary. He talks about how he uses technology in his job as a literacy coach and also how he used technology when he was a classroom teacher. Howard is an outstanding [...]

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I have to admit that I’m always amazed that I am learning something new each and every day about how to use all the new collaborative Web 2.0 tools in the classroom. I just became a Google Certified Teacher last week, and already, my mind is filled to the brim with ideas about how we [...]

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