Reflecting on Reflection
What makes you smarter? I bet you have a pretty good idea by now. Personally, I get a little smarter every time I’m behind the edit pane of this blog. I have a new bit of research to share that… Continue Reading
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Searching For a Royal Spring
Disclosure number one What kind of an idiot would dissect ten George Brett rookie cards and paste them onto the outside of his baseball-themed “Valentine’s Day” box at school? I suppose it depends on whether or not that idiot was… Continue Reading
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Beginning with the end There… glad I got that out of the way. There ended the longest blogless period I’ve had in about three years. Not that I’ve ever been that prolific. In fact, I’m pretty satisfied if I get… Continue Reading
Zero Hour in the Edublogger World
Teacher as Writer Whew. I barely got this logged in time. Too much fun making snowmen as of late. Or work? yeah, that too. Allow me to get straight with it… Last year I nominated Michael Doyle for the “Best… Continue Reading
A Good Meme Causes Reflection
The meme I hate internet memes. I have to be honest in saying that I never respond to them. The place they feel especially strange is on my blog. This is one of the few places where my learning is… Continue Reading
A Reflective Anniversary
Happy anniversary to “nashworld.” This post is the 65th of the year, and it comes exactly one year after my first post on April 21st, 2008. Wow. Looking back at that post, it was quite clear I was full of… Continue Reading
A Synthesis Blogging Whitman
My Sunday morning started with these words from Walt Whitman: GOING SOMEWHERE My science-friend, my noblest woman-friend, (Now buried in an English grave–and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,) Ended our talk–“The sum, concluding all we know of old… Continue Reading
All the top education chatter
“OK Sean, I am ready to start reading some blogs. Can you tell me where to start… give me a few places to begin?” Connecting The above question is one I have begun fielding more and more often from faculty… Continue Reading
Writing online: what really changes?
You know you wanna Before I roll out the details of this little mini-project, allow me to summarize. This project was the first of many in an attempt to characterize the differences between online writing and more traditional formats. Students… Continue Reading
Your ideal writing space?
Snow falls. My fireplace coats one half of me in cozy radiance. Across the room, Erin animates a book for my curious babe. School is still a solid day and a half away. As I sit here inspired by the… Continue Reading