Teaching High School: Finding Similarly Minded Bloggers

Educator Readings

Gotham Writers' Workshop: Writing Fiction: The Practical Guide from New York's Acclaimed Creative Writing School
As much as I would love to take on of the courses online with this book, this book is much cheaper ($15 vs $350) and possibly will be just as good.
William Glasser: The Quality School: Managing Students Without Coercion
I saw Glasser speak a few years ago. Just as powerful in person as this book is in your lap and then in your mind.
Neil Postman: The End Of Education : Redefining the Value of School
From the back of the book: "...today's schools promote the false 'gods' of economic utility, consumerism, technology, or ethnic separatism and resentment."
W. James Popham: The Truth About Testing: An Educator's Call to Action
Shows much more than I thought possible about the dangers of too much testing. (*****)
Martin L. Gross: The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of American Public Schools
This affirms for me many thoughts I have had about the public schooling system in the US. (*****)

Sunday, August 31, 2003

Finding Similarly Minded Bloggers

As I've been searching around and noticing people visiting my site, I've run into a number of nice places to learn more about blogging in the educational sphere and about blogging in general.

First, I'd like to mention Albert Delgado at Educational Weblogs. He has quite a site put together, utilizing all sorts of blogging technology. I am still working through much of what he has there as the side bars have many links to interesting things.

A site Delgado links to is Educational Bloggers' Network which apparently has roots in San Francisco, a place I would like to live.

Also interesting is Dialectic Journal. She has been blogging for a few years and is almost done with teacher training. From what I can gather, her site is a culminating project.

Finally, another site I enjoy is The Shifted Librarian. There are times when I wished I would have scrapped my already begun master's degree in Teaching and Curriculum to get a degree in library science. That site talks about all the things an excellent school library (or any library really) should do.

I am trying to find more educators to link here because I find that I go to those blogs from my link list and find more reasons on why I am writing this blog. A few are the following: 1) figure out how to use blogs in my teaching; 2) become a better teacher by reading other blogs; and, 3) write more in general.

Sunday, August 31, 2003 at 11:06 PM in Weblogs | Permalink

Comments

I'm going to be teaching high school next year (I'm student teaching in the spring.) I'll keep reading your blog for pointers. I'll need them. Good luck!

Posted by: janne | Sunday, August 31, 2003 at 11:44 PM

Now this is a coincidence. "Chronicling my transition from a junior high teacher to a high school teacher." I'm starting as a high school librarian after 17 years with middle schoolers. So far, I feel like I've died and gone to hormone free heaven. Welcome.

Have you joined eBN yet? I see the link on your page but not the badge. When you do join, we'll put a pointer to your new member page in the spotlight. That should direct some like-minded edbBloggers your way. Albert and me and a few others founded eBN late last year. We're sponsored out of UC Berkeley's Bay Area Writing Project (founding site of the National Writing Project) and collaborate with Weblogger.com to provide hosting and training, but we're not really "located" in San Francisco.

You can find my "transitional stories" on the Galileo Academy library blog; LibrarianInk, its back room site, and on the just beginning SLAC-er hang out.

And if you're teaching writing or English, note NCTE this year is in SF and we'll be doing quite a few blogging activities during it. Info and updates on that on eBN.

patrick D

Posted by: patD | Monday, September 01, 2003 at 10:50 AM

I'm a new(ish) teacher. Still in my master's/credential program, but between some Saturday teaching and TAing, I've racked up at least some experience. My student teaching is in the spring and then next year I'll be teaching HS math.

I'm also big on the anonymity thing. It's possible that someone could track down my identity from my pseudonym, but I figure I've created enough of a cloak of anonymity to allow me to be honest about my experiences. Especially now that I've dealt with the funding issues for my last year of school and I don't need the beg link on my blog (not that I had (a) donations or (b) readers, for that matter).

Posted by: Vito Prosciutto | Sunday, September 07, 2003 at 09:15 AM

We use likemindedbloggers.com - it helps us find people who are discussing and blogging about the same things that we are.

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