Comments for Libby Scene http://pwyn.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:57:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU Comment on Ok. What Can I Do with this Blog? by mdicker http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-32 mdicker Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:51:15 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-32 I think we accept or reject the posts as is. Each blog is designed with a particular purpose and audience in mind. This one is more for professionals but I know we have others that we are using with our students. I'm not sure if or when our students will be assigned e-mail. I think we accept or reject the posts as is.

Each blog is designed with a particular purpose and audience in mind. This one is more for professionals but I know we have others that we are using with our students. I’m not sure if or when our students will be assigned e-mail.

]]> Comment on Ok. What Can I Do with this Blog? by Brigid http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-31 Brigid Wed, 14 May 2008 18:55:38 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-31 Hi Mrs. Dicker, Just a few questions here. First, can you edit my post? Second, do we invite students to our blogs using their personal e-mail accounts? Will the district soon be creating individual e-mail accounts for students? Personally, I love the idea of using blogs in the classroom. There is great potential for students to communicate and collaborate on-line. I know the teachers I am working with are very excited about the prospect of blogging. I cna't help but think that students would be too. Hi Mrs. Dicker,

Just a few questions here. First, can you edit my post? Second, do we invite students to our blogs using their personal e-mail accounts? Will the district soon be creating individual e-mail accounts for students?

Personally, I love the idea of using blogs in the classroom. There is great potential for students to communicate and collaborate on-line. I know the teachers I am working with are very excited about the prospect of blogging. I cna’t help but think that students would be too.

]]> Comment on Background Knowledge Booster by mdicker http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/background-knowledge-booster/#comment-20 mdicker Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:39:24 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/background-knowledge-booster/#comment-20 You are right about the importance of questioning. It is something we encourage all along in the process, even up to the end when you think about new questions you would like to explore beyond the present inquiry. Your research is only as good as the questions you ask. You are right about the importance of questioning. It is something we encourage all along in the process, even up to the end when you think about new questions you would like to explore beyond the present inquiry. Your research is only as good as the questions you ask.

]]> Comment on Background Knowledge Booster by Jim Schneider http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/background-knowledge-booster/#comment-19 Jim Schneider Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:21:12 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/background-knowledge-booster/#comment-19 Hi MJ: Four of us in our district are pursuing guided inquiry explorations for our professional development requirement. I've been digging up writings by Carol Kuhlthau, Ross Todd's former colleague at Rutgers. Good stuff. But, what I wanted to share is that one the most interesting things I have noticed working with high school kids is their comment that "no one ever asked me to come up with my own questions to then find the answers". For these kids, their prior research experience was limited to the teacher asking the questions and then the students looking up the answers. Thesis statement creation is just this side of torture for them. With much effort, after they come up with a good working thesis statement, they tend to agree with me that the rest of the project (research process) is actually OK, if not interesting. A good thesis statement is the difference between research and reporting. Kuhlthau's Information Search Process model: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/information_search_process.htm Search onward, Jim Schneider Hi MJ:

Four of us in our district are pursuing guided inquiry explorations for our professional development requirement. I’ve been digging up writings by Carol Kuhlthau, Ross Todd’s former colleague at Rutgers. Good stuff. But, what I wanted to share is that one the most interesting things I have noticed working with high school kids is their comment that “no one ever asked me to come up with my own questions to then find the answers”. For these kids, their prior research experience was limited to the teacher asking the questions and then the students looking up the answers. Thesis statement creation is just this side of torture for them. With much effort, after they come up with a good working thesis statement, they tend to agree with me that the rest of the project (research process) is actually OK, if not interesting. A good thesis statement is the difference between research and reporting.

Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process model:

http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kuhlthau/information_search_process.htm

Search onward,
Jim Schneider

]]> Comment on Watch out: Unified Shouldn’t Mortify by pollyalida http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/watch-out-unified-shouldnt-mortify/#comment-11 pollyalida Thu, 20 Sep 2007 03:53:08 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/watch-out-unified-shouldnt-mortify/#comment-11 Great points! Students need to know how to present results in many different ways depending on the situation. Skills in a broad range of methods is needed. For us too! (so glad to see you've taken the blog from tech camp and are really using it! yay!) Great points! Students need to know how to present results in many different ways depending on the situation. Skills in a broad range of methods is needed. For us too!

(so glad to see you’ve taken the blog from tech camp and are really using it! yay!)

]]> Comment on Updating Research Model by mdicker http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/updating-the-research-model/#comment-10 mdicker Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:52:29 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/updating-the-research-model/#comment-10 I commend you for the effort. I find implementation works best at our school when we get our stakeholders involved. But I can't wait to see how the larger effort is progressing. Will we be seeing a sneak preview anywhere? I commend you for the effort. I find implementation works best at our school when we get our stakeholders involved. But I can’t wait to see how the larger effort is progressing. Will we be seeing a sneak preview anywhere?

]]> Comment on Updating Research Model by Linda Fox http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/updating-the-research-model/#comment-9 Linda Fox Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:53:56 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/08/07/updating-the-research-model/#comment-9 MJ; This is a great idea. I'll be stopping in often to see how you are doing. At Cap Reg BOCES we are tackling this issue on a larger scale as we attempt to design a model for K-12 - all aligned and with sample research tools. Wow - it's a huge project. MJ;
This is a great idea. I’ll be stopping in often to see how you are doing. At Cap Reg BOCES we are tackling this issue on a larger scale as we attempt to design a model for K-12 - all aligned and with sample research tools. Wow - it’s a huge project.

]]> Comment on Ok. What Can I Do with this Blog? by pafa http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-8 pafa Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:26:47 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-8 One of the best things about blogs is the ease with which you can add new content. No html, no web development software, you can write whenever you get a minute or two. Much faster. Also there's something about the immediacy of it and the potential for a conversation that is a bit addictive. A blog can also go hand in hand with a traditional web page. You can do all your newsy sorts of posts to a blog and integrate the blog with your website. Fewer updates to your web site that way. One of the best things about blogs is the ease with which you can add new content. No html, no web development software, you can write whenever you get a minute or two. Much faster.

Also there’s something about the immediacy of it and the potential for a conversation that is a bit addictive.

A blog can also go hand in hand with a traditional web page. You can do all your newsy sorts of posts to a blog and integrate the blog with your website. Fewer updates to your web site that way.

]]> Comment on Ok. What Can I Do with this Blog? by pafa http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-6 pafa Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:11:38 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-6 Hello there! Hello there!

]]> Comment on Ok. What Can I Do with this Blog? by Yvonne http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-5 Yvonne Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:10:36 +0000 http://pwyn.wordpress.com/2007/07/10/ok-what-can-i-do-with-this-blog/#comment-5 The difference that I see between a web page and a blog is that although you can write about topics in both cases the blog software takes care of all the housekeeping work - keeping posts in order, archiving older posts, and giving a structure for comments. With a blog you can concentrate more on the message. The difference that I see between a web page and a blog is that although you can write about topics in both cases the blog software takes care of all the housekeeping work - keeping posts in order, archiving older posts, and giving a structure for comments. With a blog you can concentrate more on the message.

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