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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Wiki</title>
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		<title>1903</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I tried to put the ellipsis dots (&#8230;) as a title, my blog software couldn&#8217;t cope, and title in the permalink became 1903. So I&#8217;ll just call this entry 1903&#8230; Today I witnessed another sign of the continuing de-evolution of seventh graders  &#8211; isn&#8217;t each succeeding generation supposed to get smarter? We were working on apostrophes, and  they were doing ok until&#8230; #11. (Lets/Let&#8217;s) go to the store. Two-thirds of them picked &#8220;Lets.&#8221; And to add insult to injury, they thought I was joking when I reminded them that &#8220;let&#8217;s&#8221; is a contraction for &#8220;let us.&#8221; &#8220;Wha? Lettuce? What are you talking about?&#8221; OMG, second day back from vacation, and they&#8217;re already wearing me down&#8230; 46 more days&#8230; Awhile back I talked about how the head of our district instructional services department had to finally track me down in my classroom to get me to show up for an EL in-service. I suggested to her that the way things ended up &#8212; with her coming to observe me and then sticking around after to talk about the things she saw, and how I could incorporate  some of the stuff she was pitching into my routine &#8212; might be the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something New.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Pssst. It&#8217;s still summer. I still have 5 weeks until school starts again. So it&#8217;s not really considered lagging when I go so long between posts; you know, because of summer and whatnot. You really should check out Refugio Beach.) My regular readers (I think there are a few of you) know that I&#8217;m a big fan of wikis. If you&#8217;re not a regular reader, or if you need a refresher, check out the Tom Sawyer wiki we had going this year. It allowed the kids to collaborate on chapter summaries, and add related information or extra explanations. Wiki entries grew from a sentence or two from one contributor to hundreds of words written and edited by a dozen kids each. It worked out beautifully, without a lot of management from me. Here&#8217;s how it ended up. However, the downside (especially in a computer lab type setting where 20-30 kids are all doing trying to do the same thing at the same time) is that with a wiki, only one person can be editing the wiki at a time; everyone else is locked out. I wanted to try some real-time peer editing and writing collaboration, but the wiki format wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still Here Blogging&#8230; (Wiki Wiki)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 04:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a weird week. We had Monday off for MLK. I was on call for jury duty on Tuesday, so I had a sub (sorry, they&#8217;re called guest teachers @ Laguna). To make it easy, I had the guest teacher administer the &#8220;District Benchmark Exam Part II,&#8221; the results of which I&#8217;m not sure what to do with. Mostly our English department has been ignoring them, saying the tests don&#8217;t really test what they claim to. Also, everyone covers the various standards at various times throughout the year &#8211; I don&#8217;t do a research paper until the spring, so we haven&#8217;t talked much about citing sources &#8211; so the idea of testing standards a-g in the beginning of the year, and standards h-m during the middle part, and so forth, just doesn&#8217;t work very well. Plus, why do I need to waste three class periods from my precious allotment giving yet another test? Anyway, I had the guest teacher give them the test, and I&#8217;ll figure out what to do with the results later. Then we were in the computer lab on Wednesday, to work on the Tom Sawyer Moodle. This is the main reason I&#8217;ve been lagging on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TomWikiSawyerPedia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of the kids have been having trouble getting through the early chapters of Tom Sawyer. Mostly it&#8217;s the vocabulary, though for some it&#8217;s the fact that they don&#8217;t bother to read it. Once we go over the reading in class, or I explain as we read aloud, they get it, and they like it. Today in class, we&#8217;re reading chapter 6 which begins with Tom trying to get out of school by pretending to be sick. &#8220;How many of you have ever faked sick to try to get out of school?&#8221; Almost every hand goes up. &#8220;Nothing changes in 170 years, does it?&#8221; They like Mark Twain&#8217;s sarcastic sense of humor, and how the goody-goody Sid is obviously a fool in Mark Twain&#8217;s eyes too. And they love the pranks. But it&#8217;s still tough, especially for the first six or eight chapters. Every year I struggle with how to get them to read it, and get them to get it. This year I&#8217;m trying an experiment. Our county office of schools hosts a Moodle server, and I use it a lot in my class. I have a whole Langston Hughes project we do online that includes quizzes and [...]]]></description>
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