What do I think? You Choose.

06.18.10 Posted in Media, Moxley, Social Media, education, elearning by Shelley

After reading The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age and “The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age,” I was left feeling extremely optimistic and extremely frustrated. There were so many things to like about these reports, yet I found myself raging against many of the points the authors made. The [...]


Old Projects Never Die

01.24.10 Posted in Social Media, research by Shelley

Last year, a colleague and I developed a project that offered differentiated instruction to third-grade readers. We ended up presenting our findings at FERA. For more information, see this post. In any case, I have the opportunity to revisit this project again this semester in a more formalized way. I am very excited! Instead of [...]


FERA Here we come!

10.15.09 Posted in conferences, research by Shelley

During the spring, I worked on a project to provide differentiated instruction for gifted readers. I described it in more detail in this entry. On a whim (well, we got the notice last minute and didn’t have much time to prepare), one of my collaborators and I decided to submit a graduate poster proposal for [...]


New Project Frustrations

02.25.09 Posted in Social Media, research by Shelley

I am working on a new project with some classmates evaluating the effectiveness of differentiated instruction on third-grade gifted readers. Part of that project implements some web 2.0 functionalities that are proving difficult to implement. So, I am again spending the morning attempting to get my logins, wikis, and blogs working consistently. Unfortunately, this is [...]