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20 Jun 08

PLN at KIS » Blog Archive » So It Ends…Will It?

  • This revolutionary course that I took this semester, revolutionalized me as a person.


    I certainly became a better writer that cares. Through my project, I had real audience. In order to succeed, I had to have a good writing that catches people. I’ve learned to make the title catching, and I’ve learned to make sure the audience wanted to read. To do that, I had to think about the sentence styles, order of what I write about, and maybe throwing some nice metaphors. I’m starting to care about what I write a lot. And one can observe my improvement in writing if one reads my own blog.

  • As a thinker, I’ve learned to think. After doing a project about something I’m interested in, I’ve learned to think in my own way, that things  I like can turn into something like this. After realizing this, I’ve learned to write about things that I like. And to me, writing is just like thinking. When I write about something I like, then I feel good. I’ve learned that ultimately, I would want to please the audience, but it all starts from pleasing myself with my own thoughts.
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PLN at KIS » Blog Archive » The Final Assessment: What I’ve become, and How Much I Worth

  • I am a freshman in high school this year, and I came from a Korean public school, where English was treated something like a dog-food. It was no wonder that I was afraid to write about my opinions, because I knew I’d have many flaws that I fail to detect. So, naturally, I developed this sense, so that I give a deep, depressing sigh when I am put to a writing moment. I thought this sensation would last for way longer than I expected, but soon, as a student going through the PLN program, I found out that writing is freaking fun, and that writing about what you really like is what makes it fun. Unlike other classes or occasions when I have to write, I was given an opportunity to actually become a writer, a real writer, for the 77 minutes that I had in C block, and during my own blogging time. As a writer, PLN was more than a mere class but a huge device that I desperately needed, which ended up discovering my potentials. Now that I have had my chance to find more about myself, I will be using this momentum to keep going further, until I become a ‘real-world-writer.’
  • LN had made me into a deeper thinker in general. What I mean by a deeper thinker is that I have become more mature in terms of thinking, and such change had made my writings look better compared to the ones in the past, and I have actually become a more efficient problem-solver. PLN was never an easy-A course, and it required the students to take full responsibility and maturity. Writings needed to be in a form that is appropriate to the audience out in the world, therefore I spent more time than any other writings, when I was typing for my blog.
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12 Nov 07

NETS for Students

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    Identify capabilities and limitations of contemporary and emerging technology resources and assess the potential of these systems and services to address personal, lifelong learning, and workplace needs. (2)

    • Note the focus on "emerging" resources. This means training students to think critically and also stay informed about new tools that do old tasks in possibly better ways. - on 2007-11-12
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11 Oct 07

Cheer Chatter: Wicked Wikis

  • I am particularly impressed with the educational usage of the 1001 Tales Wiki: https://burell9english.wikispaces.com/Project+FAQ. It is amazing how students can publish their writing online, review, revise, and edit others' work, and have others' work on their writing in the same way.

Podcast: Anthony Armstrong's Grade 8 History Class

Through the use of podcasts, I as a teacher am able to record class
lessons and discussions for my students to listen to outside of school.
This helps to extend the learning taking place in my classroom and
provide students an additional opportunity to

web.mac.com/...Podcast.html - Preview

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A Broken World

  • A grade 9 reflective history class blog re: WWI to WW II.
     - cburell on 2007-10-11
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