Facilitating Community Blogging Circles
Blogging is a different approach; the classroom is one space that blogging can occur for learners; the emphasis, however, needs to be to invite learners to step out of their well-worn shoes as students, and determine what they want to Continue reading Blogging Beyond Formal Writing
Masks in Writing We have to be very aware of how we use our maks (our pre-conceived, socialized roles that govern our values, thoughts, and actions) while blogging. We can sometimes let ourselves drift while blogging, and don different writers’ Continue reading Drawing the Lines: Private and Public Masks
Teachers reside within a zone of silence, it seems, conditioned to not discuss activities within classrooms with outsiders. The cone of silence extends itself to their classrooms, to their students, to the teacher’s lounge, and the learning activities. This conditioning requires teachers to be very careful about what they say, and thus, when it comes to blogging about their professional practice, are unwilling to discuss the goings-on of the learning trade in their blogs. Continue reading Discussion Topic for Teachers: Lower Shields and Step Out of the Zone of Silence
There are times when you get saturated with using your blog as a drafting board, and you generate ideas so fast you are surprised by how much output you are producing. Topics tend to come off so smoothly, and you Continue reading Mid-October Blues (Applying a Method When I Don’t Feel Like Blogging)
A letter to my pet about using a cone to protect him, and some reflections about how the use of the cone in education to funnel learning can impact students’ learning of ideas and behaviours. Continue reading The cone