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@ToddWhitaker knocking me out with this, the balance between real life experiences and meeting standards haunting me pic.twitter.com/Kjq92hVhZP
— Mr. Zac Leonard  (@MrLeonard8) January 20, 2016

Go boldly and scatter seeds of kindness... Reflect curiosity and wonder... Live to make the world less difficult for each other. ~ George Eliot

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Middle School Blogging Strategies

As I've been reading the process of connecting blogs and using labels/tags and categories in Laura Gibb 's SummerBlogFest2020 , I finally realized I did begin such a process with my students the year we started with Blogger blogs. Laura's Process Laura's comment reminded me of our process when she pointed me to her " Biography Assignment ." Scroll down to the blue box to see how her students created their response in their blogs-- here's a screenshot : Middle School Process In our Slice of Life writing, where students loved writing about themselves every Tuesday, I wrote about the process and project here: Slice of Life Writing , complete with links to examples and drafts. Briefly, we followed this process-- every Tuesday, and every day in March: Draft : A Quick Write, then a Slow Write/Revision in GDocs Review Strategies : Add the writing strategies used with examples from your work Post with title SOL+your topic/title; label:

Still Learning

Still Learning This summer I'm measuring my blogging knowledge, adding in some new ingredients -- such as creating a network of bloggers using InoReader . My mentor teacher is Laura Gibbs and our learning course is online: Summer2020 Blogging Fest . I'm restarting this blog for this purpose, and hopefully for a continued idea about a community of bloggers. More on that later. I'm excited to learn more about blogger-- I've had experience with many blogging platforms: Wordpress, Blogger, Edublogs, Kidblogs, Tumblr, Posterous [expired]. However, I'm really still a beginner with making the platform be what I want, and that is not always an easy thing-- many platforms dictate the format, but Blogger offers some choices. There will be some thorns in the process of planting ideas, but step by step, I'll be able to mix new ideas with old and develop a plan for a project. Today I tried a few themes -- the thing about Blogger and Wordpress, is that ther

Hope in Dark Times for a Rip in Time

Today-- I've not posted here in a while, but today a tweet from a friend and a daily doodle prompt brought some excellent strategies for these times. I hope this cross-post from my other blog brings some support for you in these times. April Doodle My CLmooc friends doodle every day. April’s prompts are from Rachelle at TinkerLab — #tinkerlab . Today the prompt is rip , so since we don’t write on paper anymore or napkins because we have digital devices, and, since it seems this year has been ripped, I created a “ rip in time” at 2100 hours for 2021. #AprilDoodle #clmooc #rip #tinkerlab Now, it seems a rather sad thing, but my friend Joy Kirr has a way forward, especially for teachers or anyone whose work brings extra stress because of this year's complete change in our daily lives. How are the optimists doing? I reflected, wrote, and now I'm sharing: https://t.co/NsDc0IhMJS I hope this helps at least one educator. If you think it will, pleas

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