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seeing how this status update things wor…

eltee — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:44:16 +0000

seeing how this status update things works here

ok for real i just typed for about 10 mi…

eltee — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:43:37 +0000

ok for real i just typed for about 10 minutes on a post about the terrors of grading a jigsaw assignment NO MATTER how it’s done,and i’ll be daggone if that stupid thing just went away! AAAIIYYEEE!!!!!!

HAPPY HAPPY! GH is writing about an arti…

Peggie B. Hensley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:34:32 +0000

HAPPY HAPPY! GH is writing about an artist his family has commissioned paintings from and is sharing his document with the artist! Wow, talk about meeting and exceeding my expectations!

I’m rethinking my shared goodle doc les…

Peggie B. Hensley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:16 +0000

I’m rethinking my shared goodle doc lesson. I seem to be doing too much lurking; students seem to be doing too little writing. Introductory paragraph is still due tomorrow. Final first draft of the whole essay is due next Friday. So here’s the revision: I’m adding a ’share the document with one other person, no teachers at LHS permitted’ component. Since one of the goals is for them to learn to collaborate online, it makes sense that they collaborate with someone other than me. I hope this helps them learn to write better too.

Day One of students using their google d…

Peggie B. Hensley — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:03:37 +0000

Day One of students using their google doc to write about their favorite artist. About two thirds of them did not email me from their gmail address, so most of my time each period will be sending them the invitation to edit the document I created for them last week. It is clear now that they don’t know how to send email messages! Unthinkable! I am SOOoooo excited/terrified about this unit! I can take ignorance the first time it pokes its beak into my world, but the second – seventieth time gets me on the ‘Good Grief! How can you not know this by now!” nerve. I still believe the unit will be valuable. I hope I have the patience.

Finally finished creating a document for…

Peggie B. Hensley — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:25:07 +0000

Finally finished creating a document for each of my students and putting them into color coded folders at google docs. Now, I’ll start to share them with students who have emailed me from their gmail addy. Monday we will begin to use their shared documents. They will write an introductory paragraph about their favorite artist, in any medium, with the goal to ‘hook me’… make me want to read the rest of their essay when it is written.

Day After Declaring Artist Manifesto… …

Peggie B. Hensley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:16:54 +0000

Day After Declaring Artist Manifesto… Gave students homework: Register a gmail account and send me an empty message from that account. Setting up folders for each class and creating a temp word document for each student. They will login to their account, find the document that I will have shared with them, and begin editing it. Goal: Give them a reason to be tech literate in a professional way.

So I have a few minutes while students a…

Peggie B. Hensley — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:24:02 +0000

So I have a few minutes while students are drawing…How will I use my new plan (google tools write/rewrite/share/etc.) for teaching social responsibility and accountability? What do i want students to know when they finish?

Distinguish authentic communication from BS.
Trouble shoot
Work through frustrations
Think Critically

Today I’m cleaning up my smArt sPace go…

Peggie B. Hensley — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:38:31 +0000

Today I’m cleaning up my smArt sPace google group, getting it ready for a new idea. I have never really done anything with revision of writing with my students, but have wanted to recreate the eAnthology SI experience with them. I’ve also finally had an aha: I need to stop trying to reshape myself into a teacher-mold unsuited to me. I’m going to just let it all fall out and be the art teacher! You know that person– quirky, out there, not expected to conform. Today, I stop stifling myself. I begin with the way I’ve been teaching communication. Lord, bless this plan if it be Thy will….

Presentation Day – Students are presenti…

Peggie B. Hensley — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:56:06 +0000

Presentation Day – Students are presenting their projects: games, bookmarks, wallwishers, digital stories, poems, etc. A very good day!