Archive for March 16th, 2008

Notes from “Partnering Students, Parents, and Teachers Through Technology”

March 16, 2008Troy Hicks No Comments »

The second in a series of workshops from NWPM colleagues at MRA 2008, these are notes from Portland Middle School teachers Amanda and Garth Cornwell’s session on “Partnering Students, Parents, and Teachers Through Technology.”

Begin with questions from the audience:

How to get younger students to access technology on their own?
How do parents react, what do they [...]

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Note from “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension”

March 16, 2008Troy Hicks No Comments »

Here are notes from my Crossroads Writing Project colleagues, Lavon Jonson and Sonja Mack: “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension.”

Background

Bringing blogging into the traditional process of using a writers notebook
Writing with your students encourages them to write (Graves, etc.)

Blog Growth

In April 2007, 70 million blogs, 90% by teenagers
In four years the [...]

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