Apr
10
Creative Firewalls?
April 10, 2007 | 1 Comment
I often ride my bike into work and when I am on my bike I seem to come up with my best lesson plan outlines. Today I couldn’t finish a thought because my mind was flush with quotes from Sir Ken Robinson’s TED conference presentation called “Do schools kill creativity?” We do a lot of [...]
Apr
2
My first official post: What are we teaching them for?
April 2, 2007 | 2 Comments
A few months ago I decided that I would be writing my Masters Capstone paper on Blogging in the classroom. A few people asked me why I would choose that instead of a topic on classroom management or developing some sort of a strategy to teach grammar to my ESL students. At first I couldn’t [...]