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Students Work Should Be Published at The End of Every Unit of Study
The Innovative Educator:During a recent visit to a school I was disappointed because although the school is noted as being a model technology school I was hearing from students, teachers, and leaders that the students had “handed in” a lot of gre...
Edublogs: Steal But Do Not Get Caught! Give Credit.
Do you think school districts "pirating" content from your education blog and sharing it with their staff - with or without attribution - is right or wrong?This is the question which the author of this post, closed it. And since we are reproducing so...
How to Use Blogging in Learning
Stephen Downes does not need presentation. He has posted his Handbook Sumission for a forthcoming STRIDE handbook for The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).The submission is a great summary of the uses of blogs. As for our interests, th...
Why Witing Your Own Dissertation Pays Down the Effort
No all of us want or like to write or use, in a good way, our skills learned either in school or in our daily activities. With enough instruments at hand, many if not most of our students today, are forgetting how handwriting is like. No more epistol...
Penmanship is at trouble because of technology
I have a 6th grader that at first, he was trying to learn cursive all by himself but then everything stopped and no teacher at his current school has been able to teach him how to do the handwriting. He struggles a lot to keep up with his daily class...
Brits Spell Better Than Americans, Says a Survey
If you don't learn to spell correctly at early ages, then you are way, way behind. Time to re-learn and recapitulate, thinking you know all and everything about your language.Are you embarrassed by your spelling? If so, you're not alone. More than ha...
John Updike: Writing Is Diminished And Reading Is Declining
John Updike passed away yesterday. There was no greater advocate of books than this author who created so many of them and read so many of them. For someone who thought of writing and literature as so fundamental, he was known for writing about the m...
How to Write in an Era of Full Online Distraction
The single worst piece of writing advice I ever got was to stay away from the Internet because it would only waste my time and wouldn't help my writing.This is the statement Gary Doctorow explains in his relevant post, although not necessarily the e...
Books, Blogs, Articles, Columns, Which Has the Greatest Impact in Our Careers?
Actually we've borrowed the question from The Blue Skunk Blog. Doug Johnson is the webmaster and also the Director of Media and Technology for the Mankato (MN) Public Schools. As a good educator and writer he has released his blog contents under Crea...
