Teachers Teaching Teachers #79: Helping students blog their passions, hunt caribou, share culture, and feed elggs with RSS

Paul Allison — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:20:14 -0600

Find out what happens when you bring together seven teachers and a student to talk about perennial questions that come up when we use blogs in the classroom.

a 6th-12th grade "New Journalism" teacher from the Bronx (with laryngitis) (Paul Allison)
a half-time computer teacher/half-time technology coach from a town west of Chicago, "right about where the corn begins" (Scott Meech)
a high school art/technology teacher and librarian from New York City (Susan Ettenheim)
an 8th grade computer technology teacher and Webhead from Virginia (Lee Baber)
a math/science/employability skills/hunting safety teacher from Alaska (Woody Woodgate)
a ninth grader from a small town in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia (Victoria)
an eighth grade science teacher from northern New Hampshire (Rick Biche)
a middle-school technology integrator from an independent K12 school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Matt Montagne)

Chat Log

Image: "Stalking a Caribou" by Travis S. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/baggis/1735135201/) License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0

Teachers Teaching Teachers #76 - Coming and Going from Georgia, California, New York, Utah, Virginia...

Paul Allison — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:34:02 -0500

Join our virtual staff room as we check in with a couple of 9th graders from Virginia--Victoria and Zack--along with teachers from these schools:

East Bronx Academy for the Future, New York City - Paul Allison
J. Frank Hilliard Middle School, Shenandoah Valley, Virginia - Lee Baber
High School at UCLA, California - Lynne Culp
Westwood Schools, Camilla, Georgia - Vicki Davis
Eleanor Roosevelt High School, New York City - Susan Ettenheim
Florin High School, Sacramento, California - Bob LeVin
Judge Memorial High School, Salt Lake City, Utah - Chris Sloan