New Carnival of Educators is up over at I Want to Teach Forever - go read the goodness!
My post about losing kids is included, as are many others. Though a lot are great and totally worth reading, two especially stood out for me.
Pat at Successful Teaching wrote about how That Kid could be the Great Kid. One line in particular made me well up a little (remember, I'm a crier): "I should focus on all of my kids as if they are all Great Kids." I know, it's not anything new, but at this time of year, it's a really good reminder.
And Molly is having a tough time. She lost her job, and she's really sad about it. It broke my heart to read this post from a dedicated teacher and to see how destroyed she is by this situation that is all based on money. Because I came really close this year to being in her situation, and I feel so fortunate that I'm not, and odds are fair that next year I will be, and it's just so scary and terrible.
Showing posts with label carnival of education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label carnival of education. Show all posts
Carnival of Educators - check that out!
'Sup, y'all? It's time for some carnival madness! We have a buncha good entries this round (though we can always use more....submit for next time here!), so settle in and get reading.
Mathew Needleman presents What to do When Children Cry in Class posted at Creating Lifelong Learners. Although I laughed so hard that I cried the first time I saw this video a while back, it's a serious topic when it comes to the classroom.
Erin Topping submitted a piece by Q6, described as, "a blog that doesn't update that often, but usually has some interesting things to say -- this one's a radical grading paradigm shifty thing": Grade Calculation, Student Focus, and Winter Sports posted at Assistive Principles . . .. And it is interesting indeed.
Sarah submitted THREE (love those overachievers!) and told me to choose...so I'm going with Confessions: Boundary Issues posted at Confessions of an Untenured Teacher. I totally get where she's coming from.
Pamela presents CreekSchooling posted at Blah, Blah, Blog. What a great experience....I want my kids to get to do more stuff like that!
Sarah Garb presents Hold Your Nose posted at Dead Class Pets. I like fries too....
Scott Palat presents Student Success Resolution #6: Get Help When Needed posted at Colleen Palat. Oh my GOD I wish they would do this.
TIC Technology In Class presents Whom Do You Help? posted at Technology In Class. I write a lot about the needy wacky kids, because they make for good stories....but I'm with the poster here. We gotta think more about the middle.
Georgina Baeza presents Mr. Hinz posted at La Brown Girl. I wanna be in the superhero teacher crew....
Sarah Ebner presents An education in good manners - are schools and teachers given too many parental responsibilities? posted at School Gate - Times Online - WBLG. Wouldn't it be nice to give BACK some of these responsibilities? Sarah's a rockstar, and she's got kickin' guest posters too!
Rhonda Franz presents School Choice and Student Discipline posted at Parenting Squad. This really is a HUGE issue. Like, ridiculously so.
Adriana presents How To Kill a Dream posted at Today's Life Psychology. You gotta keep your dreams.
Rachel presents Harris Burdick - Who's there? posted at Progressively Unnecessary. I know I'm a better writer when I think about who's reading my work.
teachin' presents Hell of a day. posted at I'm a Dreamer. I still can't even believe this day. Like...ridiculous. On so many levels.
Oh, and some list posts. I deleted most of 'em but these three seemed valid. (If I didn't include your list post and you think it was actually education related, comment, and I'll add it in.)
Florine Church presents 100 Creative Ways to Excite & Inspire Young Readers posted at Online Degrees.
Zach Macias presents 10 Essential Web Tools for Teachers posted at Online Teacher Certification.
Wise Bread presents How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions posted at Wise Bread.
Thanks to everyone who submitted - don't forget to keep 'em coming. Carnivals are always in the works, and YOU make them successful!
Mathew Needleman presents What to do When Children Cry in Class posted at Creating Lifelong Learners. Although I laughed so hard that I cried the first time I saw this video a while back, it's a serious topic when it comes to the classroom.
Erin Topping submitted a piece by Q6, described as, "a blog that doesn't update that often, but usually has some interesting things to say -- this one's a radical grading paradigm shifty thing": Grade Calculation, Student Focus, and Winter Sports posted at Assistive Principles . . .. And it is interesting indeed.
Sarah submitted THREE (love those overachievers!) and told me to choose...so I'm going with Confessions: Boundary Issues posted at Confessions of an Untenured Teacher. I totally get where she's coming from.
Pamela presents CreekSchooling posted at Blah, Blah, Blog. What a great experience....I want my kids to get to do more stuff like that!
Sarah Garb presents Hold Your Nose posted at Dead Class Pets. I like fries too....
Scott Palat presents Student Success Resolution #6: Get Help When Needed posted at Colleen Palat. Oh my GOD I wish they would do this.
TIC Technology In Class presents Whom Do You Help? posted at Technology In Class. I write a lot about the needy wacky kids, because they make for good stories....but I'm with the poster here. We gotta think more about the middle.
Georgina Baeza presents Mr. Hinz posted at La Brown Girl. I wanna be in the superhero teacher crew....
Sarah Ebner presents An education in good manners - are schools and teachers given too many parental responsibilities? posted at School Gate - Times Online - WBLG. Wouldn't it be nice to give BACK some of these responsibilities? Sarah's a rockstar, and she's got kickin' guest posters too!
Rhonda Franz presents School Choice and Student Discipline posted at Parenting Squad. This really is a HUGE issue. Like, ridiculously so.
Adriana presents How To Kill a Dream posted at Today's Life Psychology. You gotta keep your dreams.
Rachel presents Harris Burdick - Who's there? posted at Progressively Unnecessary. I know I'm a better writer when I think about who's reading my work.
teachin' presents Hell of a day. posted at I'm a Dreamer. I still can't even believe this day. Like...ridiculous. On so many levels.
Oh, and some list posts. I deleted most of 'em but these three seemed valid. (If I didn't include your list post and you think it was actually education related, comment, and I'll add it in.)
Florine Church presents 100 Creative Ways to Excite & Inspire Young Readers posted at Online Degrees.
Zach Macias presents 10 Essential Web Tools for Teachers posted at Online Teacher Certification.
Wise Bread presents How to answer 23 of the most common interview questions posted at Wise Bread.
Thanks to everyone who submitted - don't forget to keep 'em coming. Carnivals are always in the works, and YOU make them successful!
Carnival time is close....
....and I have gotten some awesome submissions (thanks!) but still want more!
So. Here's the deal. If you are reading this post and you have a blog that is related to education in any way....would you please do a quick post asking people to submit here by midnight Eastern time tomorrow (And. If you miss the deadline. Let's be honest - hit me up by Monday evening and I'll probably still work you in. See? That's how much I love you! That's how much I want your work in the carnival! That's how awesome you are!)?
Because, sure, I can go around and just gather posts I like from the millions of blogs I read (and I will if I have to), but I'd love to get more people submitting the work they want others to read. So any posts soliciting submissions would be much appreciated.
And. If you have not yet submitted. Do it. Do it now. Look at your posts, recent or otherwise, and choose one you like for any reason, and submit.
It doesn't have to be the most amazing post ever written in the history of the world; it just has to relate to education and be from an actual person. If you submit it and it's a real post and not just a spam list post about the 50 greatest things anyone could do in their classroom ever ever ever for reals yo (of which I have gotten about 20 and ain't none of 'em getting posted), then your post WILL be in the carnival! The point is to share ideas on education on a wider-than-usual scale, so that you find awesome new blogs and people who've never read you before find your awesome blog, and we all feel more connected and happy and yay!
So go. Go now. Choose one and submit and then come back on Tuesday and read the whole dang thing. It's gonna be sweet. For reals.
So. Here's the deal. If you are reading this post and you have a blog that is related to education in any way....would you please do a quick post asking people to submit here by midnight Eastern time tomorrow (And. If you miss the deadline. Let's be honest - hit me up by Monday evening and I'll probably still work you in. See? That's how much I love you! That's how much I want your work in the carnival! That's how awesome you are!)?
Because, sure, I can go around and just gather posts I like from the millions of blogs I read (and I will if I have to), but I'd love to get more people submitting the work they want others to read. So any posts soliciting submissions would be much appreciated.
And. If you have not yet submitted. Do it. Do it now. Look at your posts, recent or otherwise, and choose one you like for any reason, and submit.
It doesn't have to be the most amazing post ever written in the history of the world; it just has to relate to education and be from an actual person. If you submit it and it's a real post and not just a spam list post about the 50 greatest things anyone could do in their classroom ever ever ever for reals yo (of which I have gotten about 20 and ain't none of 'em getting posted), then your post WILL be in the carnival! The point is to share ideas on education on a wider-than-usual scale, so that you find awesome new blogs and people who've never read you before find your awesome blog, and we all feel more connected and happy and yay!
So go. Go now. Choose one and submit and then come back on Tuesday and read the whole dang thing. It's gonna be sweet. For reals.
Hook me up, yo
So I'm hosting the next Carnival of Educators, and y'all, I need some submissions. Send me anything you want - a piece you wrote that you're really proud of stylistically, something with intriguing or controversial ideas, a post about a problem with which you need assistance....anything that's not just a random list solely for revenue-generating purposes.
Know another blogger who should submit? Tell 'em! Or submit a post on their behalf - that's totally cool too (.....I think. Someone correct me if I'm wrong).
The former Carnival of Education was how I discovered a LOT of the blogs I now read, and I think we should keep doing the favor of collecting numerous quality posts from rockin' contributors in one place so that people interested in education can get a lot of goodness at once.
Let's do this thing.
Know another blogger who should submit? Tell 'em! Or submit a post on their behalf - that's totally cool too (.....I think. Someone correct me if I'm wrong).
The former Carnival of Education was how I discovered a LOT of the blogs I now read, and I think we should keep doing the favor of collecting numerous quality posts from rockin' contributors in one place so that people interested in education can get a lot of goodness at once.
Let's do this thing.
Carnival of Educators, yo
A v. short Carnival of Educators is up, including my piece on student evaluations - go read the entries, and then submit for next time!
EduCarnival V2 Issue 11!
This weekend, we fell back an hour. I can never remember if that's Daylight Savings, or Daylight Spendings (okay, I know that's not really a thing) - all I remember is that I feel like I get an extra hour. So what are some teachers around the blogosphere using that extra time for? Oh my goodness, so many kickass things.... Darren of Right on the Left Coast is using it for some of the many tasks that teachers do that actually have nothing to do with delivering instruction. (He is far more focused at school than I.)
Mo of A Day in the Life of a Selfish Brat is spending some time reflecting on how she got her job, and questioning herself. (Go cheer her up!)
Mathew Needleman of Creating Lifelong Learners is wondering how to get teacher education programs to address integrating technology in the classroom. (Any thoughts?)
Pat of Successful Teaching is using it to connect to school board members near and far. (And I'm totally going to be using some of her suggestions to do it myself.)
Richie of Bellringers is meeting high school newspaper deadlines....and doing it CHOCOLATE FREE. (A shiver just ran down your spine, didn't it? I know. An extra hour's not enough time for that kind of tragedy.)
Siobhan Curious of Classroom as Microcosm is applying a personally frustrating experience to her students' learning experiences, as seen through the lens of what sounds like a really smart book of Buddhist precepts. (I'll be adding it to my reading list! For, you know, when we fall back three days and I have the time to read it. What? That doesn't happen?)
Old Andrew of Scenes from the Battleground is creating some handy negative correlation illustrations. (My favorite is the last one.)
Pissed Off Teacher is helping her students set some pretty dang useful goals. (I should try that with a few of mine.)
Joanne Jacobs is promoting a new way of training teachers involving mentoring that is far more extensive than our current system. (I think it sounds great! Plus the comparison to young doctors makes me assume it would be as dramatic as, say, Grey's Anatomy, and that'd be fascinating.)
Mister Teacher of Learn Me Good is regrouping his thoughts around subtraction regrouping and questions that involve words as well as numbers. (His math tests are way more thought-provoking than I recall third grade being. I just had to, like, add and subtract and stuff.)
Mr. D. of I Want to Teach Forever is hooking up his math teacher homies with a rockin' sounding game to help with number sense. (Sounds way fun to me - perhaps I should come up with something similar for parts of speech....)
Jose Vilson is thinking deeply and sharing generously about his writing process. (I super heart his simile from his title. THAT'S some effective figurative language right there, my friends.)
Mr. B of Docere Est Discere is reviewing a book that responds to a question we've all gotten a few times, and reconsidering how to answer that question. (I'm with him - you have to be willing to answer that question. I wish more teachers would.)
And I of here :) have been worrying about my kids and the change of seasons.
Only one list post - peruse Rachel Holtz's article if you're looking for a change in career and want some non-traditional majors. (#9, yo - Casino Dealer. Not for me, but totally badass.)
Boy. Will you just LOOK at everything that got done with that extra hour? Rock on, y'all. Keep up the good work, and don't forget to submit for next week's EduCarnival V2! I think it'll be back at Epic Adventures are Often Uncomfortable, but keep watching there and Clix will let you know if it's going elsewhere.
(Photo credit to Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com)
Carnival!
I b'lieve I'm hosting the next EduCarnival V.2 - so if you haven't submitted, feel free to email me a post you'd like featured at imadreamerteacher@gmail.com. Tell your friends!
EduCarnival V2 is ready to be read!
Just a quick post to say that the latest EduCarnival V2 is up over at Bellringers. Go! Read! Comment! Show the love! My post on fun at parent/teacher conferences is included as are many other fine pieces of writing. Much finer than mine, in fact.
And next week, the EduCarnival is coming here (I think). So PLEASE submit your rockin'-est posts for the world's perusal. The site doesn't show an upcoming edition right now but I promise there will be one, whether here or elsewhere.
And next week, the EduCarnival is coming here (I think). So PLEASE submit your rockin'-est posts for the world's perusal. The site doesn't show an upcoming edition right now but I promise there will be one, whether here or elsewhere.
Carnies are loved.
PS New EduCarnival up! I'm featured, but not many folks are as it's all new'n'stuff - get thee to the submission form and choose yer best for all to read!
Goodbye Carnival of Education....FOREVER??!?!?!?!?
Oh no! The Carnival of Education is gone, and I don't think it's coming back! It's definitely been a while since the last one - a month? Six weeks? - and it seemed like no one knew what had happened to it.
Ever since, I've been ducking over to BlogCarnival.com periodically to check in and see if it was back yet.
Today, to my dismay, I found this alarming little nugget:
| Current status | ¤ | This carnival listing has been discontinued. |
What?!? No more Carnival of Ed? A travesty! I propose someone restarts it (or, really, a new version) stat. I'd do it but not that many people read my blog so it seems kinda pointless.
So who should take the lead here? If you have a suggestion, leave it in the comments, or just start haranguing fancy blogger types to get one of them to take up the cause and sally forth for the good of the students, the teachers, the blogosphere, and the world!
(The carnival above is clearly alive and hoppin'. That's what the Carnival of Education needs to be again! Photo credit to {meagen}!
Take a ride...
...on the latest Carnival of Education over at Learn Me Good! My post on Slick is in it (AND featured on Joanne Jacobs - I feel so fancy, though both sites seem to believe I'm a man, but it doesn't really matter...). Also included are numerous other great pieces - I particularly enjoyed this post from Tracey of Walking the Dog. It's a lovely moment.
Go! Read! Enjoy!
Go! Read! Enjoy!
Carnival!
I started this blog all the way back in March - a whopping two and a half months. I started it because on a LiveJournal teaching site I read, someone recommended It's Not All Flowers and Sausages. I went to check it out and I was hooked: funny, touching, introspective, biting, intelligent...I wanted to be just like Mimi! Which I'm clearly not. But either way, I was in. And from there, I started reading other education blogs that I found on her blogroll, then on those people's blogrolls, then on THOSE people's blogrolls....you get the idea. And blogrolls are great, and I should put one up myself, and I'm totally going to once we actually hit summer break and I have some time and can actually figure out how to do it. But another way to find new blogs you like is the Carnival of Education. (I'm writing this post like I have people who read this who don't already follow the Carnival of Education. Maybe I do! Could happen. Anyway.)
The Carnival of Education may not have popcorn or sno-cones, but it definitely will take you for a ride. Some posts are cyclical, linking you back to other ideas, just like a Ferris wheel (which I just capitalized. Is it supposed to be capitalized? I feel like it is. Hmmm. Oh, yep, Wikipedia bears that out). Others are full of wild ups and downs, leaving you breathless at the end and maybe a little bit wanting to vomit - the education blogosphere's rollercoasters. And some are the neverending line you wait in, assuming it's going to lead somewhere good but in the end you get out of the spinning teacups and you're like, "Was that it? Seriously? Huh." But most are from the fun, interesting, thoughtprovoking analogies! Very few are completely unfulfilling. No matter what your style of reading, there's something there for you.
As of today, the most recent Carnival of Education is up - I've been reading 'em since, like, Carnival #217, and this is #225, so you know that I go waaaaaaaaaay back with this whole thing. Though I do have a post in it - yay! I can't wait to go check it out and find some amazing writers that I've never heard of before. I hope you do too!
The Carnival of Education may not have popcorn or sno-cones, but it definitely will take you for a ride. Some posts are cyclical, linking you back to other ideas, just like a Ferris wheel (which I just capitalized. Is it supposed to be capitalized? I feel like it is. Hmmm. Oh, yep, Wikipedia bears that out). Others are full of wild ups and downs, leaving you breathless at the end and maybe a little bit wanting to vomit - the education blogosphere's rollercoasters. And some are the neverending line you wait in, assuming it's going to lead somewhere good but in the end you get out of the spinning teacups and you're like, "Was that it? Seriously? Huh." But most are from the fun, interesting, thoughtprovoking analogies! Very few are completely unfulfilling. No matter what your style of reading, there's something there for you.
As of today, the most recent Carnival of Education is up - I've been reading 'em since, like, Carnival #217, and this is #225, so you know that I go waaaaaaaaaay back with this whole thing. Though I do have a post in it - yay! I can't wait to go check it out and find some amazing writers that I've never heard of before. I hope you do too!
