Entries from September 2007

September 29, 2007

Emotions and Inquiry

Dianne Oberg reflects on her experiences co-authoring the document “Focus on Inquiry” in her paper for the World Library and Information Congress (August 2004). She highlights the key features which were added to the document as a result of the revision process. “Focus on Inquiry” is a revision of “Focus on Research” both [...]

September 25, 2007

Quiz masters

Am-I-Dumb.com – Are you dumb?
Doug mentioned this quiz and I’m always up for a little check up.   The question remain, am I smart and what kind of smart!

September 21, 2007

James gets all the fun!

My husband is a teacher and quite a fine one at that. He is energetic and funny and fair. He is well-liked by his students. Today he found out that there is a Facebook site discussing exclusively him. A student ‘leaked’ its existence to him today and we went over for [...]

September 14, 2007

A Terrific Opportunity!

I remember Doug telling me that one should praise locally and complain globally as a professional who blogs.  So welcome to a praise page!
If good PD looks like this.  Then…
My school division has embarked on a good path.  Today we got the first of 2.5 days of professional development which we will be receiving before [...]

September 3, 2007

Getting Ready

I’m preparing for a classroom with a web 2.0 component and I spent some time tonight getting it ready.  I now have a classroom blog address, a classroom del.icio.us account and a classroom flickr account.  Nothing fancy in any of these links yet but it is a start.  I’m just wondering how to keep all [...]