Carla Faulkner

I know that assessment was discussed last week but my gator has not been pulling up current stuff.  This post is discussing how Fisher grades students’ blogs.  He writes how he decides the points given.  Just another idea for using blogs in the classroom.  This could a good rubric to use in our classrooms
 
http://remoteaccess.typepad.com/remote_access/2008/09/yes-i-do-grade-blog-posts.html

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This was on Cool Cat and here is the link.  A japanese women accused of online murder.  Apparently, she gained access to her online husbands’ computer and hacked personal information.  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,443767,00.html
This brings up the question of behavior online and offline.  This kind of behavior is unacceptable and luckily she was caught.  This kind of stuff [...]

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Came through my reader about Spore.  The game is not as good as first thought.  Scientist blast the game and a lot of the marketing was taken out of context.  Wonder if it would still be good enough to play or is it a waste of time, educationally. 
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/322/5901/531b

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You know the fear and humilation the beginning of this class, in retrospect, was not that bad.  We didn’t have a clue what we were doing… kinda like outpost.  If people were not there to help us then we would quit.  I am liking it more and more.  I can honestly see why people have [...]

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As teachers, we have been in both positions.  AS a learner, I have sta in classes which bored the life out of me but as a teacher, i know the content had to be covered.  This goes back to the idea that teachers how they were taught.  Now, that new teachers are learning new ‘modern’ [...]

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New game site that students let me know about.  I haven’t got to play it but it resembles LO.  I am going to check it out.

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I think that portfolios are a big waste of time.  I was a senior when portfolios first started.  The idea of portfolios are good but in reality the teacher did most of my revisions.  Even today, the students have to write basically the same thing.  How does that determine anything?  In elementary, the teachers and [...]

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Well, I can stay that unless you are made to keep evidence folders than teachers probably have no proof what goes on in their classrooms.  Yeah, we have lesson plans but that does not mean anything.  I can have the best lessons in the school but I could still have a free day.  

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Well, first off I would like to point out something about graduate classes.  By the time most students get to this point of their education they need a little break.  (to a point.)  This level is considered a master’s for a reason.  We, as students, should be doing more than just multiple choice and book [...]

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YOu know… this is such a simple analogy that it makes so much sense that it seems almost too simple.   This would be something that could be given to other teachers to give them new look at education.  Since we have been discussing theories;  would theories be like the new fancy toasters.  The high [...]

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