These links supplement the professional development online discussion I had with teachers at International School of Manila on February 25, 2009.

Clay Burell
Seoul, Korea
My blogs here: Education.Change.org and Beyond School

Clay Burell: 15:10:04 I see your agenda in the email consisting of: 1) the dangers of turning new tools to old uses 2) blogging as a PD activity for teachers 3) questions from/discussions with the group Is that about right?

Ståle Brokvam : 15:10:51 Yes, but if there's room, it'd be good to hear a few things about extending collaboration using other tools, e.g. wikis

Clay Burell: 15:12:15 we can do that.

Clay Burell: 15:58:39 A student critiques teachers' use of tech

Clay Burell: 16:04:29 Another student writes about the "Networked Learning" writing seminar, and how it "revolutionized" him and his writing

Clay Burell: 16:06:54 A non-prescriptive "Creating Critical Readers" project idea along the same lines as the Networked Learning class: Creating Critical Readers: A Too-Easy Diigo-Google News-Student Blogging Project  

Clay Burell: 16:08:02 A student discovers she likes writing for the first time via a wiki project in history

Clay Burell: 16:13:18 A project to develop reading for main ideas, writing summaries, and then public speaking - via radio news podcasting

Clay Burell: 16:14:35 Google maps for memoir/personal narrative writing

Clay Burell: 16:15:48 Giving great speakers but poor writers an opportunity to excel (differentiated assessment) - the case of Muhammad Ali in high school

Clay Burell: 16:16:45 More on the "schooliness" of how we teaching public speaking

Clay Burell: 16:18:10 Student video interview on the "blogging project being like their _business_"  

Clay Burell: 16:21:02 Using tech for ongoing course evaluation _during_, not after, the course - via anonymous logins to invite student honesty. This is responsive pedagogy at its best - especially if students see you making changes based on their feedback 

Clay Burell: 16:23:15 For Writing teachers: Using Alltop.com to teach the art of titles and hooks

Clay Burell: 16:24:07 Student graphic novel

Clay Burell: 16:25:15 Webcam reader-response homework

Clay Burell: 16:26:44 Course evaluations and the hidden curriculum: more on anonymous student feedback for responsive teaching

Clay Burell: 16:35:29 Unit-planning "think-aloud": How blogging to unit-plan leads to wonderful ideas

Clay Burell: 16:54:09 Fifth grade teacher "could just cry" after seeing the heightened engagement of her student novel study when they did it on a wiki  

Clay Burell: 16:56:33 Student-made wiki history textbook