Tagged: "learning"
Collaborative Lyrical Analysis with Google Docs
As my colleague Nate Green recently discussed, Google Docs is a fantastic way to respond to student writing. Students receive my comments quicker, they can read them better, and it allows the opportunity for an ongoing dialogue rather than a static one-time handoff. But this year, with the inclusion of WiFi in Avon Old Farms’ classrooms, [...]
Down With Posters
I despise glitter. It’s proudly gauche and sinisterly invasive. Once a bedazzled project crosses the threshold of my classroom, the insidious sparkles permanently lodge in every nook and cranny. Months later my forehead looks like Lady Gaga’s because I’ve accidentally scratched my head after brushing up against an errant drift of pixie dust. I ban [...]
What do you love? Google is a great place to start…
Google recently launched a new service called “What Do You Love?” At first glance, this appears to be a simple search box. As an experiment, I searched “independent school.” The screenshots above represent a sampling of [...]
Communicating & Connecting with Social Media (Part II)
Back in the fall of last year I penned a post here on edSocialMedia.com titled Communicating & Connecting with Social Media (Part I). In that post I detailed how social media helped connect me professionally to like-minded people as well as how social media had become an important professional development, networking, and collaboration tool for [...]
Customer Engagement Starts With School Culture
A lot of people are talking about customer engagement. In the for-profit world, engaging customers can create a lot of revenue for companies. For schools and non-profit organizations, customer engagement doesn’t always take precedence, but it should. Unlike companies, schools have more people on the frontline who have direct contact with those who the organization [...]
Symbolics: How To (Pt. 2)
If you are reading this post, you have most likely read its companion that explains what a Symbolic is. If you have not, I encourage you to do so before reading on. In this post I want to give a “meat and potatoes” explanation of how I introduce Symbolics and help students complete each step [...]
Symbolics: Making Abstract Thinking Concrete (Pt. 1)
A Symbolic is a concrete representation of abstract thinking, a picture that demonstrates how ideas interact and work. I use Symbolics as an alternative evaluation tool, and I have found a way to use Flickr to make the entire process much more effective. I explain how later in this post. These videos explain the concept [...]
Please Tell Me A Story
In thinking about how we connect with various constituencies, I can’t help but to think about every piece of content as a story. Content must be compelling and have a specific purpose in mind. As you read that last sentence, you probably found yourself subconsciously nodding and most certainly understanding the first statement as truth; [...]
Hawthorne, Social Media, and You
It may be apocryphal, but the word on the Internet is that the average person is bombarded by up to 5000 advertisements per day. The actual number doesn’t really matter. What does is the fact that we have to sift through a lot of information over the course of a day. As adults, we have [...]
You don’t have time not to blog
Recently Xaverian Brothers High School held an awareness day, when the school gathers to closely examine and discuss social issues;we have several throughout the year. Each class attends a different lecture on the topic of diversity. I chose to attend the religious diversity lecture with the senior class. Alex a Jewish senior at Xaverian introduced his [...]
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