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Twitter and Bloom's Taxonomy

Innovation and PBL all came up in the discussion thread this week, so I thought this was timely when it came across my Twitter feed!

This reminded me of something that came up in this week's discussion on affordances and limitations. Look at limitations as a way to start a conversation about solutions, not as a way to stop the conversation entirely.

This story on NPR describes how some virtual schools address student needs, but others have issues with quality and personalizing instruction, especially for students with special needs.

Meet Your Students Where They Are: Social Media We're used to engaging students in the real world, now it's time to engage them in social online spaces like Facebook and Twitter. Online social networking has become an integral space for many of our students to live out their daily personal interactions.

A great site that lets you easily embed # feeds into your website.

I LOVE Caitlin's ideas! Many if her tweets validate my thoughts!

I ran across Jesse on Twitter, and now follow his posts on his website/blog. He shares great strategies for building online communities and has a fresh perspective on grading- especially in the online world. While he works at a collegiate level, I find the research and practice to still be relevant and applicable to high school teaching.