Comments on: Blogging for a Purpose! http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2008/12/31/blogging-for-a-purpose/ Supporting Universal Access and Universal Design for Learning Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:16:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bob Cotter http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2008/12/31/blogging-for-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-3631 Bob Cotter Wed, 31 Dec 2008 17:14:45 +0000 http://paulhami.edublogs.org/?p=1109#comment-3631 Paul, I'm late to the party, but quite pleased to have discovered your blog by way of Twitter. I appreciate your point of view about the purposes for blogging and usually, when I'm asked why I don't write more, I say that it is because I don't have anything to say at the time. Thanks for helping validate my thinking, and for providing me with more content for Google Reader. Paul, I’m late to the party, but quite pleased to have discovered your blog by way of Twitter. I appreciate your point of view about the purposes for blogging and usually, when I’m asked why I don’t write more, I say that it is because I don’t have anything to say at the time. Thanks for helping validate my thinking, and for providing me with more content for Google Reader.

]]> By: Paul Hamilton http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2008/12/31/blogging-for-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-3630 Paul Hamilton Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:59:01 +0000 http://paulhami.edublogs.org/?p=1109#comment-3630 Thanks to all for your responses. Feedback is always a welcome bonus! Richard: Your prolific blogging has made my blog easier to write this year. You've saved me countless hours by finding and sharing many of the resources that I then go on to explore and share again. Many thanks! Ira: You've challenged my thinking and encouraged me in countless ways this year. What stands out, and one of the things in my mind as I wrote this post, is your emphasis on the importance of learners having the opportunity to choose the tools that best support their own learning. Again, the key here is to empower ownership by the learner. Many thanks! Anne: Your positive feedback and encouragement over the past year have also meant a great deal to me. I quite like the analogy of ripples that flow outward when a pebble is thrown into a pond. I'm delighted to know that you help to extend the ripples when I drop my blog posts into the blogosphere. Many thanks! Karen: Your passionate commitment to supporting ALL learners, and especially the learners who are so often harmed by the ways that we typically do school, is an ongoing inspiration to me. I think you've nailed it when you say it's all about choices, equipping, and empowerment. Many thanks! Happy New Year to each of you! Thanks to all for your responses. Feedback is always a welcome bonus!

Richard: Your prolific blogging has made my blog easier to write this year. You’ve saved me countless hours by finding and sharing many of the resources that I then go on to explore and share again. Many thanks!

Ira: You’ve challenged my thinking and encouraged me in countless ways this year. What stands out, and one of the things in my mind as I wrote this post, is your emphasis on the importance of learners having the opportunity to choose the tools that best support their own learning. Again, the key here is to empower ownership by the learner. Many thanks!

Anne: Your positive feedback and encouragement over the past year have also meant a great deal to me. I quite like the analogy of ripples that flow outward when a pebble is thrown into a pond. I’m delighted to know that you help to extend the ripples when I drop my blog posts into the blogosphere. Many thanks!

Karen: Your passionate commitment to supporting ALL learners, and especially the learners who are so often harmed by the ways that we typically do school, is an ongoing inspiration to me. I think you’ve nailed it when you say it’s all about choices, equipping, and empowerment. Many thanks!

Happy New Year to each of you!

]]> By: KarenJanowski http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2008/12/31/blogging-for-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-3629 KarenJanowski Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:16:43 +0000 http://paulhami.edublogs.org/?p=1109#comment-3629 Paul, Your connection to what we are asking students to do in our classrooms really resonates with me. Our students are no different, they want to have an impact as well. I think it's all about choices, equipping and empowerment; learning inevitably occurs. I know I have learned an incredible amount this year and had my thinking challenged in so many way. Why would we want anything less for our students? Thanks for all you do to share resources that challenge teachers to think in new ways, to empower the students with whom they work. Happy New Year! Paul,
Your connection to what we are asking students to do in our classrooms really resonates with me. Our students are no different, they want to have an impact as well. I think it’s all about choices, equipping and empowerment; learning inevitably occurs. I know I have learned an incredible amount this year and had my thinking challenged in so many way.
Why would we want anything less for our students?
Thanks for all you do to share resources that challenge teachers to think in new ways, to empower the students with whom they work.
Happy New Year!

]]> By: Anne Truger http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2008/12/31/blogging-for-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-3628 Anne Truger Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:42:54 +0000 http://paulhami.edublogs.org/?p=1109#comment-3628 Paul, I share your blog with everyone I meet that doesn't already read it. Your commitment to children with special needs is so heartwarming and shine through every post. When I met you last year at CTG I had no idea what an incredible resource I was gaining. Thanks for being a part of my PLN! Keep up the good work! Looking forward to many more resources in 2009! Happy New Year! ~Anne Paul,

I share your blog with everyone I meet that doesn’t already read it. Your commitment to children with special needs is so heartwarming and shine through every post. When I met you last year at CTG I had no idea what an incredible resource I was gaining. Thanks for being a part of my PLN! Keep up the good work! Looking forward to many more resources in 2009! Happy New Year!

~Anne

]]> By: Ira Socol http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2008/12/31/blogging-for-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-3627 Ira Socol Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:34:29 +0000 http://paulhami.edublogs.org/?p=1109#comment-3627 Thanks Paul. Ownership of learning is so essential. I'm always reminded of the quote from Postman + Weingartner's 1969 "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" - "Teachers should be prohibited from asking any question they already know the answer to." That's the difference between building an engaged community of learners (as we have here) and the mind-numbing uselessness of "learning the right answer" we so often see in our schools. Happy New Year! Thanks Paul. Ownership of learning is so essential. I’m always reminded of the quote from Postman + Weingartner’s 1969 “Teaching as a Subversive Activity” – “Teachers should be prohibited from asking any question they already know the answer to.” That’s the difference between building an engaged community of learners (as we have here) and the mind-numbing uselessness of “learning the right answer” we so often see in our schools.

Happy New Year!

]]> By: Richard Byrne http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2008/12/31/blogging-for-a-purpose/comment-page-1/#comment-3626 Richard Byrne Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:50:05 +0000 http://paulhami.edublogs.org/?p=1109#comment-3626 Great topic and a great explanation of why you blog. I think most of us that blog because we enjoy it and not because we're paid, do it because we enjoy the global audience aspect of blogging. You're right, we're not that much different than our students in that regard. Best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year. Richard Great topic and a great explanation of why you blog. I think most of us that blog because we enjoy it and not because we’re paid, do it because we enjoy the global audience aspect of blogging. You’re right, we’re not that much different than our students in that regard.

Best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year.

Richard

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