JAMES MICHIE. The mobile web is in the ascendency, with many UI and UX designers, iterating for mobile before desktop. With this in mind I have been wrestling with CSS and HTML5 to make my blog more responsive to different screen sizes. However, I kept encountering a range of problems, trying to turn a basic WP theme into something far more up-to-date. Instead I have installed the Origin theme, which is already set up to be responsive.
Tinkering around with both the CSS and HTML, I have managed to construct a design that I am happy with. I coded a menu at the top and took the opportunity to install a new contact page. Sporting the same theme as my blog, my home page is also more minimal, creating a more consistent experience for people who stumble across via search or through links on Twitter and Google+. I am most pleased with the way my blog now renders on mobile devices. Please let me know what you think, particularly if you are viewing this on your mobile device. (via Observation Paper ) What Does a Great School Year Look Like? Ask the Students. Teaching Strategies Shelley Wright Shelley Wright's class constructed a complete Holocaust Museum as part of a school project.
This past school year, Shelley Wright, a high school educator in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, made a number of big changes in her teaching practice. The class went paperless and used a Wiki, she incorporated project-based learning and collaboration into her lessons, she experimented with “vessays.” All along the way, she documented everything on her blog Wright’s Room — not just operational information, but how those changes affected her view of learning and her relationship with her students. It took a lot of courage on Wright’s part to just jump in with these new practices. “I couldn’t rely on the teacher anymore, I had to rely on myself and my classmates; which is a lot harder than you think.” First, here are some responses from students about the class’s built-from-the-ground-up Holocaust Exhibit, the epitome of project-based learning.
Related. We need schools where “everybody knows your name.” “Making your way in the world today takes everything you’ve got.
Taking a break from all your worries, sure would help a lot. Wouldn’t you like to get away? Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, and they’re always glad you came. You wanna be where you can see, our troubles are all the same, you wanna be where everybody knows your name. You wanna go where people know, people are all the same, you wanna go where everybody knows your name.”
My former colleague, Dan McDonald, master teacher and kid-magnet extraordinaire, came up with a damn good concept one day. He wondered further why schools shut their doors for all intent and purposes at 4:00 PM, and don’t effectively open up again until 7:00 AM the next day. Next time you go to work at your school, or next time you walk into your child’s school, take some time to think about what kind of school it really is.
The 21st Century Principal. Education Week American Education News Site of Record.