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Popped into a class for a second and one student was helping another with some fairly complicated math. No adult prompting here. Just spontaneous student-to-student teaching and learning. I work at a pretty neat place. Technorati Tags: Odyssey Charter Schools, teaching, learning, students

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Google does this thing for their engineers called “20% Time“. Basically they can take 20% of their work time to work on a project outside of what their normal job is. It’s usually something that the engineer is passionate about and wants to play around with. I thought I’d give this a shot with my [...]

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I’m 14 weeks into my admin job. There’s lots of things that I haven’t done (lots and lots and lots) but some of the things that I have done came to my desk today. One of my teachers is working on her Ph. D., doing a study about African-American females and online learning. Beyond being [...]

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I want to completely redesign my government class using wikispaces. I got a little start on it today. Here’s why: I am constantly making changes to the class. This means that I have to crack open ye ‘ol Dreamweaver just to make a few edits. If the class were in a wiki I could make [...]

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Anyone else out there done with Classroom 2.0? I am and I’m sad to say so. Other than twitter, it’s been the most powerful network I’ve been a part of. There’s a great number of people that I would have never met and connected with if it weren’t for Classroom 2.0. EduBloggerCon wouldn’t have happened [...]

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