The thoughts expressed here are mine. These views have been incubated through various experiences during my 25 years in education including my work in the Clovis Unified School District, being a school library media teacher, coordinating school libraries, coordinating an online high school, being the project director for a Teaching American History grant , being a doctoral student at CSU Fresno, and the various people I read, meet and hear online and at conferences. I am now the principal of the online charter high school in Clovis Unified and you can read more about that on the blog. Read more about me on my wiki.
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Hey Rob: I came back and got on Google Reader, got the account and some feeds, and am looking at the blog spaces now. So even a relative Luddite can learn new tricks.
Thanks for all the wonderful work you do and for your generosity in sharing your talents!
Hi Rob,
Great site. I have bookmarked you. I am Paul C., a southern Ontario teacher at http://quoteflections.com/ I began the meme: high school daze to praise. I hope you can visit my site and possibly respond. I noticed that Doug Johnson tagged you. Or you could comment on my site. Great meeting up with educators around the world.
Paul C.
Dear Rob,
We are a team of graduate students studying innovation and change at the University of Minnesota who are researching how much influence teachers do, or do not have, with regard to decisions concerning teaching, learning, curriculum, assessment, and overall public education innovation. We are studying “forums” such as blogs, where people gather to share values. For a variety of reasons, we have been unable to find an easy conduit to initiate a discussion with teachers. As a result, we have turned to blogs, such as your own – an innovation in itself – to attempt to engage you in dialog.
We have set up The Education Innovation Blog, http://blog.lib.umn.edu/joh02855/innovationeducation as a place where we hope to gather your stories, thoughts and opinions on innovation and creativity in education – both what would benefit you as a teacher and what would benefit your students. The blog includes a link to a 10-minute survey that we have developed. We hope this survey will serve as a starting point for discussions. We would very much appreciate your taking the survey and sharing this request with as many of your colleagues as possible. If you find this survey/blog interesting, please post it on your blog so other teachers can see it. ALL SURVEY RESPONSES WILL BE CONFIDENTIAL! The survey will close as of April 30th, however the blog will remain active and results and discussion of this project will be posted there.
Your postings to the blog will be public. If you prefer to remain anonymous, please post them to our e-mail address, 4educationinnovation@gmail.com, we will strip them of identifying information and post your remarks anonymously.
If you have any questions, please e-mail us at 4educationinnovation@gmail.com. Thank you, we hope you will choose to participate and assist us in our research!
Ben Cashen, Mike Fink, Kristi Mueller, Jen Trochinski, Sarah Waldemar, Wendy Wustenberg, Kun Yang
The American Film Institute proudly announces the launch of AFI ScreenNation™ – an online video sharing community for middle and high school students across America.
AFI ScreenNation™ is a place where young filmmakers can share their work, receive recognition and compete for prizes in ongoing challenges. The topics of challenges will range from the power of friendship to global warming.
AFI Screen Nation™ is designed to be a hub for all who support the creative use of digital filmmaking by young people: schools, school districts, teachers, film festivals, organizations and after-school clubs. As part of this program, AFI ScreenNation provides a showcase for the work of these organizations, their sites and festival competitions.
Easy to join, easy to share and it’s free!
screennation.afi.com
Check out the AFI ScreenNation call for videos:
http://screennation.afi.com/Watch.aspx?video=745
Hello Rob
Just came across your blog and thought you might be interested in adding your blog details to the new International Edubloggers Directory at http://edubloggerdir.blogspot.com
Patricia
Hi Rob,
I was excited to read about the online high school that Clovis Unified will be starting. I do not know if you are aware, but I have a website dedicated to that topic. Well, not to Clovis Unified, but to online high schools. It may be helpful to you to take a look.
http://www.bestonlinehighschools.com
Hi webmaster!
Hello Rob:
We appreciated your comments recently at Britannica’s “Brave New Classroom 2.0″ forum and thought you might be interested in Dan Willingham’s latest post:
“How NOT to Evaluate Teachers”:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/11/how-not-to-evaluate-teachers/
Your comments and insight are welcome on this post, too.
All the best,
Barbara Schreiber
Britannica Blog
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Ever hear of Lawrence Schoonover?
I’m his great-nephew and have just released the second in what will eventually be nine historical novels in The Schoonover Collection. The first was Queen’s Cross, perhaps the most famous and successful biographical novel of Isabella of Castile, Spain’s greatest leader.
His books were favorites among history students for a generation, and I’m releasing new editions, starting with that one. The next I released (just last month) was Gentle Infidel, about an Italian boy living in Turkey, taken by the Grand Turk as a Janissary, who fought during the siege of Constantinople.
Let me know if you review books, and I’ll send you a review copy of Queen’s Cross. They’re available through Baker & Taylor, but I also sell them, and at discounts to educational institutions.
Reply to my email and I;d love to tell you more.
Regards,
George Scott
FCPub-Contact@knology.net