Learners Thrive with a Public Audience
By Jim Moulton
6/21/09
I drove over to Bates College, in Lewiston, Maine, this morning. I had been invited to see a set of culminating presentations of collaborative research projects by college students and alternative-education students from a local middle school.
The Art of Networking on Campus
By Jim Moulton
5/20/09In my travels for work and pleasure, I have hunted agates in Scotland, searched for flints, arrowheads, and fossils in Wyoming, Texas, and Oregon, and brought pieces of obsidian home from Japan. Yes, I am an avid rock collector. But this posting is really about people and schools, not rocks.
Use Skype with Students
By Jim Moulton
4/22/09I am traveling through India right now and doing workshops in private schools on technology-rich project learning. India has proven to be simply an amazing experience, and I will be sending along some other posts about what I am seeing here, but I thought I would start on the communication front.
Publishing Student Writing -- and Your Own
By Jim Moulton
3/26/09When I was a classroom teacher, my kids published a lot of books. We carefully finished our pages and then used the plastic spiral binder in the teachers' room to bind the pages into book form.
Teachers Need to Share Their Stories
By Jim Moulton
2/27/09I am going to connect a couple of dots here in thinking about personality and teaching. Stay with me -- and please let me know what you think.
Web 2.0 Tools, and Keeping Up with the Internet's Evolution
By Jim Moulton
2/13/09This morning, I got an email -- from a wonderful fourth-grade teacher in Vermont -- that passed along a recommendation about a Web site called Go2Web20.net. So I went poking around and found that I had written a post about Go2Web20.net a year ago. But something has changed.
Technology Integration Begins at Home
By Jim Moulton
1/29/09A lot of times, I find myself working just as hard, or harder, to inspire folks as I do to inform them. While I am consistently helping all the teachers I work with to increase their purposeful use of technology in the classroom, I find that too often I am encouraging veteran teachers to come over the threshold and begin using it.
It's Important to Practice What We Teach
By Jim Moulton
1/9/09In an earlier post, I wrote about the importance of being a constant learner, of never stopping. Recently, I have been reflecting on an important step in becoming a lifelong learner -- the opportunity to spend time with a committed learner.
The Teachable Moment: Is It Science, or Just Plain Serendipity?
By Jim Moulton
12/4/08While in California last week for a meeting, I hiked the hills above Novato, a town north of the Golden Gate Bridge. It was a clear day, and the afternoon sun warmed the west-facing slopes. I followed a dirt road that had been carved out of the hills. An ardent observer of nature, I quickly clued in to the fact that there were a large number of lizards around.
Creative Thinking, Part Two: China Imports Project Learning to Promote Imagination
By Jim Moulton
11/20/08This is the second part of a two-part blog entry. Read part one.
I guess I should not have been surprised by the rigid structure in Chinese schools when I visited the country. After all, I was in a nation that is one of the most capable at taking someone else's idea and efficiently reproducing it.
