Virtual Friendships

This year I’ve been fortunate to meet many of my edublogger friends in person. It started with Learning 2.0 where I got to meet Jeff Utecht, Clay Burell, Wes Fryer, Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach and Will Richardson (and I also was fortunate to spend lots of time with Susan Sedro, who I had met the year before…

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The Comment Challenge: Reflections From Day 1 – 10

Wow! It’s hard to believe the Comment Challenge is almost half-over! The past week has been insanely busy with our move downtown and three sets of friends arriving in Bangkok back-to-back. It’s been an absolute pleasure to host our guests (including the wonderful Susan Sedro and Chrissy Hellyer) in our lovely new apartment, but having…

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The Comment Challenge: Activities

As much as I would like to post all of the activities day by day here on Always Learning, we are just about to move into our fantastic new apartment in downtown Bangkok (we currently live out by the school in the suburbs of the city), and I have no idea when my internet will…

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The Comment Challenge: Day 1 Activity

Cross posted from The Bamboo Project and the Challenge wiki. If you have ideas for challenge activities, please post those on the Activities page here. Day 1: Do a Commenting Self-Audit One of the goals of the 31 Day Comment Challenge is for us to improve our commenting skills and draw more people into blog…

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The Comment Challenge: Prizes & Awards

The Comment Challenge begins tomorrow! A few exciting bits of news before we get on to the prizes and awards: The Comment Challenge is great for your classroom too! We have several classrooms signed up to participate with their students and there are already tons of ideas for classroom activities posted. Please feel free to…

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