educating for the journey

Hysteria is only possible with an audience.

- Chuck Palahniuk (1962 - )

In March i (like almost every teacher blogger i read) posted about TeacherTube. I also posted a Literature Circles video created by some teachers here at CMS. It has now been viewed just under 18,000 times and has generated some great feedback. On Monday we received an email from Harvey Daniels himself; he had been sent the video, liked it, commmented on it and even gave us some new directions that he and co-author Nancy Steienke are headed in. He is also sending the group a copy of their new book to use in their teaching - AMAZING! Ironically he said in his email:

You are doing something that is so great and valuable to students: showing them what a Lit Circle looks like before asking them to do it themselves! I think this kind of modeling by teachers is exemplary, and especially cool with this across the curriculum group of teachers.

I smiled, realizing that his email was demonstrating to the teachers involved EXACTLY the type of REAL and LEGITIMATE feedback that students can recieve with Web 2.0 publishing.

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Life continues to be crazy here at CMS, we are still focusing on our transition to PowerSchool, considering the pros and cons of WebGrader, building our CAISSA web presence, finalizing construction plans on the new Library/Media center, purchasing new materials for summer delivery, planning where they and the machines they displace will go, as well as making summer plans…never a dull moment.

img from: http://www.literaturecircles.com/