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Location (Country, State, District):
Canada
Web Site:
http://iss07.yesican-science.ca
Blog:
http://nexus.ontarioblogs.com
About Me:
I have taught at the elementary level for more than 25 years. I am currently Curriculum Consultant for the YES I Can! Science project at McMaster University. I coordinate our real-time science projects such as Polar Science, www.polarscience.ca and our current project, ISS07, iss07.yesican-science.ca. I am also the creator and administrator of the Ontario blogs project, www.ontarioblogs.com

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Learning to Change

Thanks to a tweet from Jeff Whipple I found my way to this video produced by Pearson’s for CoSN. The title - Learning to Change, grabbed me first and got me thinking before I even clicked the play button. We tell teachers they must change, but do we acknowledge that we must in many cases learn [...]

Comment Challenge - Let’s Take Stock

As part of the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge, we’ve been asked to consider how we’re inviting conversation on our own blogs. It’s been suggested that we use Michele Martin’s post Six Reasons People Aren’t Commenting On Your Blog as a guide for auditing our blogs. Here are six common traps Michele says bloggers [...]

The Comment Challenge: Building Community One Conversation at a Time

We’re more than a week into the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge and at the time of this writing, coComment is tracking 135 conversations by 92 group members. There are far too many individual comments to try to read them all! However following conversations that interest you will still lead you to many voices you [...]

Things are buzzin’ at the Comment Challenge!

The volume of the edublogsphere has been cranked up this past week as over 100 bloggers have taken up the challenge to improve their commenting by participating in the 2008 31 Day Comment Challenge. Commenters have been buzzing, flitting from blog to blog, sampling bits of wisdom here and digging into conversations there. Kate Foy and [...]

2008 Comment Challenge - Tracking Your Comments

I’m really enjoying taking part in the 2008 Comment Challenge! I’m meeting familiar and new-to-me bloggers all over the place (including here on my own blog)! And as usual when I throw myself into a challenge, I’m learning so much! Today’s challenge relates to comment tracking. This is a critical element of commenting. When you make [...]

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Think Big!

One of the things I love most about teaching is the opportunity we have to “start fresh” each school year - with new students and new possibilities. As we plan for the learning opportunities we will facilitate for our students, we need to step back from our curricula, lists of outcomes, and standards; step way back, and keep backing up, until a bigger picture starts to come into focus. Once we have the perspective of that bigger picture, we can zoom in again on the outcomes and standards as requ… Continue

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At 10:54pm on February 16th, 2008, Yadab Prasad Bastola said…
Hi Me from Nepal we will be in touch.It will be intersting to share information and expercience eachothers.
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