http://eolmstead.edublogs.org Another excellent Edublogs.org blog Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:26:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, the second semester has started - in some ways, it seems, without me.  But I'm getting caught up.  My students have created i-google accounts and learnerblogs accounts, so I'm officially back on board with learnerblogs for this semester.  My hope is that using i-google as an aggregator for news ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2008/02/03/under-way-in-semester-two/ For the first time in just over a year I’ve had the urge to write on my edublogs site.  I guess that means it’s a truly organic experience, but why the apathy?  It was partly due to my frustration with how the realities of my last experiences with edublogs did ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2008/01/21/why-the-one-year-haitus/ Here's Julia's post on NCLB.  She is a junior in my Civics class who commented on the law. http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2007/01/16/julia-also-weighed-in-on-nclb/ If you want to know about water, then why is the fish the last one asked? By the time students reach high school they have maintained the same "career" for longer than most adults ever will.  Students graduate high school with thirteen or more years of analyzing and critiquing teachers and their ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2007/01/16/what-the-experts-think/ Blogs are just one aspect of a larger trend of increased available technology, and hopefully not something that the educational world allows to pass by without examining its power in schools.  Globalization and technology have dramatically changed business practices around the world, and yet education has changed very little.  This ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2007/01/15/blogs-are-just-the-beginning/ The British Newspaper the Times ran a story on how the war has impacted six ordinary Iraqis.  I think we as Americans often forget that there are average civilians living daily lives that have been greatly affected by America's involvement in the region.  These stories do a great job of ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2006/11/26/the-wars-impact-on-every-day-civilians/ With the conflict at 3 years and 8 months, The Iraq War is now longer than the American conflict of World War Two.  The only struggles that have laster longer for the United States are the Revolutionary War (6 years, 9 months), The Civil War (4 years), and the Vietnam ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2006/11/26/iraq-war-now-longer-than-us-involvement-in-world-war-two/ For those of you following along, you have seen my previous post about the website Watching America.  As I was reading from that site today I came across an article in the "Europe" section that was originally printed in a British newspaper called the Independent.  The article is titled "Thanksgiving ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2006/11/25/reading-about-iraq-from-the-other-side-of-the-pond/ Amendment I of the United States Constitution guarantees free speech in the press.  Even so, we still only get the American perspective whether we're using Fox news, CBS, National Public Radio, the New York Times, or any other American media company for that matter.  However, one of the many great ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2006/11/25/getting-beyond-the-american-media/ Recently Congressman Charles Rangel who represents New York State's 15th district (primarily Manhattan, NY) restated his views on the need for a military draft.  He writes: The question of whether we need a universal military draft will be important as long as this country is placing thousands of young men and ... http://eolmstead.edublogs.org/2006/11/22/reinstating-the-draft-a-proposal-of-conscience/