Three teachers new to SLA this year, Larissa, Caitlin and Rosalind, shared their perspectives on what it’s like teaching at a progressive school. While I’m feeling a little under the weather and not able to ask many questions, the discussion in the session was really great. The new teachers have an interesting perspective on [...]
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January 26, 2008
Educon 2.0 Friday Fun
Alice Barr, Colleen King and I arrived in Philadelphia for Educon 2.0 yesterday at 12:30, having driven down from Massachusetts that morning. (Alice and I got a head start from Maine Thursday night, which helped immensely!) We went straight to the Science Leadership Academy to see the students and teachers in action, which was wonderful. [...]
December 3, 2007
Multimedia Documentation
I lucked out last week. The WHS Science department was planning a trip to Boston to see several exhibits, and there was space enough for me to go and to take a few art students along. I’d been dying to see the Glass Flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History since the science [...]
October 15, 2007
Use it to learn it
The ACTEM MaineEd07 conference was Thursday and Friday – and there were 800 people there, with access to tons of workshops, lots of vendors, and a keynote that pointed out some of the implications for web 2.0 in the classroom. I learned lots and presented two of the workshops. I realized that I have [...]
