Avenue4Learning

I was so fortunate to facilitate a conversation at EduCon 2.3 with Kyle Pace, Yoon Soo Lim, and Elizabeth Peterson! We are four very passionate educators, and talking about Cultivating Connections through Arts Integration is obviously something about which the four of us are deeply passionate. We wrote a reflection, along with Andrew Garcia (who [...]

I was recently asked by Elizabeth Peterson to guest post on The Inspired Classroom blog. Elizabeth is an elementary classroom teacher dedicated to infusing arts education into her instruction. This is a great blog to add to your blog reader!! This week, the theme is Arts Integration. You can find my guest post here: http://www.theinspiredclassroom.com/2010/09/making-connections-through-the-arts/. [...]

Recently, I overheard some educators discussing personal websites, Facebook, Twitter, and blogs. Although I wasn’t a part of this conversation, I couldn’t help but hear what they were saying (okay, I was eavesdropping). The most disappointing part of what I heard was this statement: “Oh, who has time for all of that garbage?!?! All those [...]

I am always extremely encouraged when I hear about teachers who incorporate blogging as a tool for students to reflect and evaluate. There are some really great classroom blogs where teachers have provided some guidelines about blogging and expectations for their students. One good example of a classroom blog is the South Titan Government Blog. [...]

Discussing Digital Literacy with educators usually brings about a list of excuses why they can’t implement teaching digital skills in the classroom: 1. I have too much curriculum content to cover, and I don’t have time to teach anything else. 2. I don’t know enough about Web 2.0 (or even what that really means) to [...]

I know I’m a little late in posting this, as it was published on April 30, but I think the findings are promising. Blogging helps encourage teen writing from eSchool News: “Bradley A. Hammer, who teaches in Duke University’s writing program, says the kind of writing students do on blogs and other digital formats actually [...]