We are now beginning to pilot this calendar idea for the 8th grade block classes. It’s a slow process getting everyone on board and taking the time to make the transition.

Happy to report that my proposal to allow music in classrooms was accepted and my kids are now able to listen to music.

Grant,
I just came out of my daughter’s portfolio share today so it was great to read a little bit from an ES teacher’s perspective. I have to say as a parent, I love that Maya has a blog that shows much of her […]

Jeff, I didn’t mean that as a criticism of the assignment. I really enjoyed the assignment. It has been a great experience being a student again and seeing assignments from that perspective. As a student we […]

It seems that because students find social uses of their technology that our first instinct is to ban them from class, and then we later (after many years) allow that technology when we figure out how to use that […]

Julie,

While students will want to use their favorite music from iTunes, they can also get music from plenty of royalty free music sites. The music is not popular, but its pretty good for these projects. I […]

Facebook’s algorithms finally caught up with us and we were shut down. Now we are using Today’ Meet, which gets the job done even though it is not as fun for the kids.

One of the interesting things about digital communication is that it is hard to tell who is an introvert or who is an extrovert. I have read your blogs before and found them interesting and thoughtful and that […]

I finally got all of my students up and running with Facebook and it worked great! I learned that Facebook only asks for a cell phone authentication if any red flags have been raised by its computer data […]

Sarah,

Today I managed to get a whole class on to Facebook and I did not have to use Edmodo so I am not necessarily planning to use that software, but I am interested in finding students to be an audience for […]

Jeff,

I do try to give very little homework. In fact, my students spent 180 minutes making a 2-3 minute video in class (after they had finished the first part of the project and their research). The […]

Bummer. Fakebook can only add fake friends so I can’t have my students friend someone else in their class.

Sanne,

Thanks for the suggestion, Sanne. We use Edublog in this class, and it would be great for blogging, but I wanted something that was more interactive like Facebook where everyone could see everyone […]

Jeff,

Fakebook looks great. I’ll give that a try. Thanks for your help.

-Seth