Clarence Fisher in His Own Words:
First and most important of all, I am a teacher. I have been teaching for sixteen years and I learn something every day.
I teach full time and enjoy being involved with research to improve what we do in our classrooms. I am involved with efforts to redefine literacy and what it means to be literate in our twenty-first century, technologically advanced society.
I write articles, give presentations, and think about classrooms 2.0 and the possibilities for learning.
My classroom has been featured in several articles in Middle School Journal, Technology and Learning, and in the recent book New Literacies in Action
I have been honoured to win one of Canada’s highest teaching awards; the Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching. I have also been named an Outstanding Middle Years Educator in my province, as well as winning several other awards for the innovative integration of technology into everyday classroom life.
I live in a small rural community and think geography is irrelevent on our hyperconnected globe. This leads to the tagline of my blog: “Even From Here.”
Blog: Remote Access
email: glassbeed@gmail.com
Skype: glassbeed
delicious bookmarks: cfisher
Personal flickr page: glassbeednorth
Twitter: glassbeed
What’s up with the “glassbeed?” Read this.
djakes: Does literacy change?
djakes: Or do the skills that contribute to being literate shift?
djakes: Isnt literacy rooted in the abilty to write, read, and communicate?
charbeck 2: how kids communicate is changing, so literacy is changing too for under 30 sometings,,,, most teachers are over 30 so there is a big gap here
Kathleen Cushman: Some kids whose voices appear on FiresInTheMind.org feel more respected in a positive way when their full name is used--this is new to me as I have been inclined to "protect" them, but their teachers say that it's good for them to have a positive digital presence
http://www.evenfromhere.org/?p=1611 - go find out all you can about these guys - then - could you find these guys... do harm to them?
no - they were sharing a lot - but in a safe way
we have a thing about phone #'s on line - but we do have phone books
they were worried about will sharing so many photos of his kids.. but he was doing it in a safe way
steve suggests - look at srs in hs - from the vantage of colleges looking at you
2 teachers that know each other, but students don't, 16, 17, 18 - and search each other
you have to tell your own story - if you're not somebody else is telling it for you.
global issues and connecting:
global connectivity for a classroom today.. needs to be default position
had kids take off shoes and tell where they are made
use igoogle - online textbook - find 5-6 feeds online (bbc news to village in africa, etc) required reading
build a page and share it with others.
then they find other places they want to focus on
once build page - look at top - tab - that sends kids an email
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/share-tab-from-your-igoogle-page.html
PeggyG: http://globalvoices.org/ - love zuckerman
Kathleen Cushman: The biology teacher was using "The INner Life of a Cell" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpTmXz8VQF8&feature=related
Kathleen Cushman: I started a school in a semi-rural area <www.parker.org> and it took that to get them out of their cocoons
original global collab 2.0 projects -
basic project management
Kathleen Cushman: @carolteach4 send them to my blog please! firesinthemind.org (and come too, it's really for teachers but depends on kids' voices
kids won't let you down...
it can't be in the beginning about the content
we feel we have to justify what we do... can't give them a flickr or blog and ask them to blog about weekend.. we feel guilty - but that's a good place to be
let kids find their own connections - form own networks
Heather Durnin: Flickr photo contest in the Idea Hive http://www.ideahive.org/?p=159
Cris: Dave Cormier is really into analytics -- would be good contact
glassbead: when i took up glassbeed - spelled correctly was already taken - german book 1943, herman hess, glass bead game - order of monks who play the game.
Lisa M Lane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
glass bead is an idea... one puts one out... then another.. they have to play against each other.. not a competition but a collaboration.
if ideas end up going together - music at end resonates
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