It has been awhile and I hope that the Intrepid Classroom is not dead beyond resuscitating. We have all been away for some time now, and perhaps some of the faithful have jumped ship. Perhaps you are new and this is your first time here, regardless all I can do is keep trudging on with [...]
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Posted in Daraja Academy, Ning on Oct 29th, 2008 No Comments »
There has been much talk here at Intrepid Classroom about the fact that there are not specific enough goals. People often say that they do not know what it is that they are meant to be doing, that the assignments lack structure, and that there is very little cohesion to the entire experiment.
I have repeatedly [...]
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Posted in Networking, Ning, RSS, Tools on Jun 12th, 2008 No Comments »
I read a lot of material online. My RSS feeder is usually hovering with about one hundred unread posts and articles. In the spirit of opening up my network to you the students, I have decided to share some of the relevent and pertinent information I find with you.
I have recently discovered a blogger named [...]
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Hello members of Intrepid Classroom and first time readers. We are up to twenty-six members, and while I am waiting for school to end to present a few big project ideas, many of you are already getting started by doing a variety of exciting things. I have been receiving some questions lately, so I think [...]
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Posted in Networking, Ning on May 12th, 2008 6 Comments »
As we begin to use more and more web tools to share our work, collaborate with each other, raise awareness, it is a good idea to stop every once in a while to recap which tool is best for each job. Some people may be experts with these tools, while others may still be [...]
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We now have seventeen members at the Ning, and we are starting to have some really good discussions about capital punishment. There is a hefty book list as well as some shared music, so if you haven’t already done so, please come by and join the Ning.
This is a good time, however, to start to [...]
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Posted in Networking, Ning on May 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
As we move forward with this project, we will see that we are all on different levels technologically speaking. I hope that by using a variety of different tools any student, who comes to the Intrepid Classroom, will feel more and more comfortable using Web 2.0.
We are assuming that most students who regularly visit [...]
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