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- Hometown:
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- School / Work Affiliation
- Hamline University
- About Me:
- In my first life, I taught middle and high school English. Now, in my second life, I'm working in graduate professional development for teachers, with an eye toward integrating and exploring technology whenever I can.
Does that mean Second Life would be my third life? And now Ning is somewhere in the sequence. . .
Sschwister's Blog
do something cool for summer vacation
[cross-posted at Higher Edison]
You have two choices.
You are 15 or 16 or 17 years old. Summer is just getting started, but already the days are passing too quickly. On the far shore of this beautiful inland sea of unstructured time, someone is waiting in a September classroom with an assignment: Write an essay describing what you did for summer vacation. There you'll be, hands poised above the keyboard, ref…
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Posted on July 6th, 2007 at 12:13pm —
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necc2007 session: using technology to build a community of learners
With my colleagues Vivian Johnson and Cara Hagen, I'll be co-presenting a session at NECC later this afternoon called Using Technology to Build a Community of Learners.
| Creating a Community of Learners Using Technology [Session : Hands-on BYOL] |
Posted on June 25th, 2007 at 8:35am —
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learners, lurkers, and lunkers: swimming in the ning fishbowl
[Cross-posted at Higher Edison]
As a gold-standard certified introvert and digital immigrant, the interactive, public, exposed aspects of Web 2.0 send me squarely out of my comfort zone. And,
happily, they land me right into my zone of proximal development---aka
the squirming-is-good-for-you zone. When I began teaching middle
school, it was a similar stretch.
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Posted on April 11th, 2007 at 9:45pm —
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Good to meet you at NECC--and again here.
--Suzie
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I am in your Hamline class. It is a very small world! Your friend who wrote a about blogging for their masters paper, who was that? I would really like getting in touch with them and bounce some ideas off them. Thanks for the heads up!
Hans