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This gives me some pause because it adds to my own doubts about how to have students collect sources. What role should aggregators play? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

most likely. - Michael Staton

Absolutely... if not more so. - Holly Rae

So many lists, so little curriculum. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

I also like this idea. I wonder if we can all choose 5 books in Youth Voices, and agree to talk about those books? Can these be listed in our Extended profiles? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

The expectations on the papers here are made clear in the oral presentations in class. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This is a very complex issue. I heard this story one day, and a couple of days later, I was shocked when the NY Times featured a front-page story about this conflict that starts with terrible details about the death of a young man at the hands a Uyghurs. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

What if we all put our schools on this map? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

"We'd be happy to have you and your students join us. Join http://youthvoices.net , yourself, then we can see about getting some students in." - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

I'm curious to find the test that was used in New Haven for the firefighters' promotions. Why isn't the Times publishing it or portions of it so that we can determine ourselves "whether the test was in fact fair or not"? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

Okay, so I'm getting some history here. I/O Solutions? Do you think they have published the test -- or was it more than one test? I didn't know before that there was both a written and an oral part of the test. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This is a very useful resource! - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

I'll be working on a course description. This was an interesting outline. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This is art by a math teacher in my school. How do we use each others talents more in our schools? Slotting teachers into disciplines makes even less sense than slotting students into them. But how can we make this work, practically! - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

Revolutionary tools: critical thinking and writing skills... if we make them so. Ronald Takaki - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

Really? So many things in life get suspended, don't they? Yet this is one of the top 10 questions my students want to explore when they are allowed to ask any question. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

Being language-based is a challenge? Maybe. Many of the other challenges on this list would need to be unpacked for me. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This would be a good place to start for a summer reading list, no? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

I was delighted by Reif Larsen and his connections to art and education, George Landow and Shirley Brice Heath. Listening to how he created a novel that is an "exploded hypertext" was exciting! Then to hear how he learned to listen to the language of conversation while working on a project in schools with Heath?! Wow such wonderful streams that have nourished my intellectual life had come together for Reif Larsen. Of course I'm looking for the book now. Has anybody read it? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

Cool. Where are you? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This is a good list of criteria for headlines. I would like to get students to read the whole page, and look at the exmples from the BBC. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

I tend to agree with this. I think that my least successful class right now is the one where the pro-school and anti-school groups are most clearly divided. There is a lot to consider here. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

Do we believe them? How much is this about lawlessness and chaos and greed, and how much is it about "patrolling our seas" to stop illegal fishing and dumping of wastes? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This is a very well organized, inspiring site! - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This is a collection of sample VoiceThread projects categorized by curriculum area and grade level. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This is a bit of a bracer on sites like http://www.communitycounts.com/forum... and the http://www.whitehouse.gov/OpenFor... Seems to me like this is a reminder about how mobs are not necessarily wise, that a filtering system might also be helpful. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

The stages outlined on this are interesting to consider. Mainly I would like to think about how these stages can be imported into a social network, in addition to the face-to-face work described in these slides. - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

I think it's important to not get caught up in the either/or of using a social network like http://youthvoices.net or having students use tools they might use outside of school, like tumblr or flickr. If there is time I think they need BOTH/AND... so I'm thinking about how to set things up on flickr for students... or how they can do this, then use RSS to feed into Youth Voices. But Why doesn't Youth Voices bring in images... maybe we can make it do this? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This more or less summarizes where I want to work with students. I want them to start thinking about their titles, their keywords, their first paragraphs, and their images. Then I want them to think about keeping their readers by segmenting and using sub-headlines. Students need to be clear about what is in each of the sections -- and mainly why a reader should continue. What is the value of reading everything to the ent? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher

This makes for an interesting reading list, can I get these in my classroom? - Paul Allison, NYC teacher