5 Things Meme

Cool Cat Teacher, Vicki Davis alerted me to this meme and although I haven’t been in the ’sphere’ for long, I thought I’d participate.
1) As you might note in my Introductory text box in my sidebar I am a ‘liminal Christian’. You may be wondering what that means. Liminal means ‘at the edges’. I am [...]

Identity – Comfort, Confidence and Creativity

In Christopher Sessums writing on Cultural Implications of Social Software:  Teaching and Learning, he talks about the three C’s – comfort, confidence and creativity being crucial to teachers taking on social software as part of their toolbox.  In my graduate studies work this year, I have decided to study new literacies.  One part of this [...]

Learning the Code

The blogging adventure continues to pop up with surprises. There is an unending supply of tools for searching, writing and investigating on the internet. I cannot believe how much more can be done than I had first envisioned. I thought that blogging was a simple task. It is, if you [...]

Old Standards, New Music

Old literacies, old teachers, old standards.  I feel old in the new literacy landscape and I am still fairly early in my teaching and learning to be ‘teacher’.  I wish for relevant, empowering contexts for education.  Reading and writing are still relevant and empowering, changed, yet the grounding is the same.  I ground myself in [...]

Reflections on writing

I walked off the bus into the cool air of the morning, inspired by a writer whose work takes me to the river in the summer buzzing with the mosquitoes. I want to write. I want to write well. I am struggling to write sitting at my desk in my corner cubicle surrounded [...]

Curriculum – the bugbear

Joseph Schwab talks about the four places around which the curriculum is constructed – the student, the teacher, the milieu and the subject matter. So often we believe that the curriculum is the document that we get given by the government but this is only a piece of the puzzle composing curriculum. How [...]

Why Teach?

I teach because I want the world to be a better place, because I loved all kinds of learning and didn’t want to choose one way of being in the world. I love painting and music, reading and movies, chemistry and mathematics. I believe that learning is a life-long experience; it neither begins [...]