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Drawing the Lines: Private and Public Masks

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’ masks at different times in different circumstances. For example, this segment was written 24 hours…

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Discussion Topic for Teachers: Lower Shields and Step Out of the Zone of Silence

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.

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Mid-October Blues (Applying a Method When I Don’t Feel Like Blogging)

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 are inspired to write.   However, this day is not one of those days. Maybe it…

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The cone

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.

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Going Back to School – A question of perspective

I have been reading an article by Song and Hill (2007) titled “A Conceptual Model for Understanding Self-Directed Learning in Online Environments” from the Journal of Interactive Learning Online at www.ncolr.org/jiol The authors ask the following questions about the role of learners’ motivation for SDL contexts:  how does a learner become motivated in a SDL context…

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