http://judsouth.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:59:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Many people have emailed me asking why I haven't posted pictures of my beautiful granddaughters.  I explained that I really didn't know how, but now I think I do.  This will just be a temporary post since I do not want the cuteness of my granddaughters to detract from the ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/25/just-braggin/ On page 209 of Raw Materials for the Mind, David Warlick says that there are three major benefits for having students publish online.  These benefits involve motivation, authentic writing, and multi-media.  The large audience of the worldwide web not only encourages students to become engaged in writing which actually communicates to ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/20/just-publishing/  "We live among stray thoughts” according to Naomi Shihab Nye.  As I was being pulled over by a Kentucky Highway Patrolman on Sunday on my way to dinner from church, the stray thought that went through my mind was, "My car is a 'cop magnet'."  I believe I have evidence ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/20/just-stray-thoughts/ In his book, Raw Materials for the Mind, author David Warlick says, Perhaps a useful looking glass through which to examine this time of change and its impact on our schools is to examine the evolution of our economic systems.  It is largely economic systems that determine how people spend their ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/19/preparing-students-for-what/ When someone asks you to finish the statement: "a teacher is"..., you probably recall those men and women hired by various school boards or college boards during that period of time that you were officially labeled student .  However when you do that, you are leaving out a host of ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/17/a-teacher-is/   I have been worried about our food supply.  We have had e-coli outbreaks for years, and then there was the "mad cow" scare.  After I heard rumors of mad cow disease victims'  bones (cows, of course) being ground up and sent to Asia to be fed to their farm ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/14/good-for-wolfgang/   I am nearing the end of my second day at the 2007 Summer Institute at the Logan satellite site.  I have not had a day off in ages;  I need to buy two new tires for my car.  I had to rush my car to Tire City yesterday to ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/13/just-writing/        Have you ever had a problem with a filtering system?  You know, those things designed to protect children from information that might be harmful to their mental or emotional health.  You will be happy and feel most secure to know that the one designed and administered by the West ... http://judsouth.edublogs.org/2007/06/12/how-ridiculous/