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Karen Mc and I had a long, long chat and phone call about using Manila for some class sites. Very detailed, very useful. Seemed like it belonged here, that others could benefit from, and contribute to, an essay into managing, as well as using, blogs with kids. But it didn't happen here - it happened over on akp. My guess is that is the way it will work, the way it should work. Another site, this site, is just another stupid after-school meeting that the department chair says the principal says the superintendent says the state says we have to have.
The independent spaces of cms's are where the best work will happen, like individual teachers' classrooms. Which is not to say that cms, and classroom, content and pedagogy shouldn't inform practice beyond individual boundaries (url or room #). Just that it should be effortless, seamless, not just another stupid meeting that a tired teacher has to go to.
So we stick with the notion of teacher inquiry, some benignly non-onerous posing of a question about using blogs in classroom practice. Participants assign all writing about that question on their personal sites to a news department, which automatically gets fed into the k-12blogWrite home page. That's it. Not so much a hallway as a faculty room bulletin board, with very brief postIt's pointing to writing about teaching and learning. The hallway is the Web itself, the long, long hallway of teachers reading and writing to and from it. This site is a bulletin board for folks who've met along that hallway.
Question is, can such an rss feed be built with Manila and with other cms tools?
by pat delaney 6/18/02; 7:29:19 AM Discuss
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