Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
Posts tagged China
America….you just don’t get it!
Aug 30th
From cbsnews.com Math Tests For Five-Year-Olds?
The experiment could involve tests as long as 90 minutes and change reading assessments for kindergartners through second-graders in the nation’s biggest school system, where Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration has embraced testing. The approach dismays some parents and educators who see it as mechanizing education.
Show me one piece of research that says a 90 minute test is good for a 5 year old? Heck….show me a 5 year old who can sit for 90 minutes!
The Department of Education unveiled the $400,000 program in an e-mail Monday inviting elementary school principals to participate. About 65 principals More >
Fundraising in a Web 2.0 World
May 20th
What I truly love about the web is when it takes thing that before seemed hard and difficult and all of a sudden makes them easy. Not only that, but when you are trying to get money and funds into a country that is hard to get into to begin with the web allows you access to people on the ground that can help.
SAS (my school) has set up the SAS Myanmar Relief fund. Working with the International School in Myanmar and an NGO on the ground there our school has found a way to get money directly to those helping people More >
Earthquake in China-We’re OK
May 13th
Just a quick post to let everyone know that we’re doing fine in Shanghai. I just finished talking to EARCOS who is an organization that most international schools belong too. The director there told me he had checked in with all the EARCOS schools in the region and everyone is fine.
I have created a quick Google Earth file to give everyone some perspective of where the earthquake was in relation to Shanghai. You’ll find the two campuses, my apartment and the placemarker of roughly where the earthquake took place.
Thank you everyone for your concern.
I’m sure our school will be helping in some More >
Back from Western China
Oct 7th
I’ve actually been back for a couple of days, but hit the ground running getting in at midnight and having to full on PD days and friends visiting from the States and then Dubai.
Kashgar was wonderful. Different people, different culture. We had to keep reminding ourselves that we were in China and had not actually left the country.
You can view all our pictures from the trip by clicking on the picture below:
We did end up finding the carpets we were looking for. In fact…we found to many of them. Might have to put Google Ads on the blog to More >
Off to explore Western China-Kashgar
Sep 28th
We celebrated the Moon Festival earlier this week, and next week we get 3 days off of school for Chinese National Day (Think Independence day in your country). It’s been a heck of a start to the school year, with little time to blog, do deep thinking and reflecting or get the stuff done I want to and on time.
But next week…my wife and I leave the stress of this fast pace busy city for a little Chinese culture. Wes, Sheryl, and Will have all written how Shanghai is in my words intense. It sucks you into its face pace, never More >
A long but fulfilling day
Apr 17th
Another long day but a good one over all. Taught middle schoolers how to create header images for their blogs or web sites. Taught a high school elective via video conference about wikis, tags, and rss to kick off the horizonproject. Then brought 9 new teachers into the blogosphere with an after school Professional Development opportunity.
On thing that is becoming clear is that it’s getting harder and harder to find a place to put a personal blog. Edublogs, Blogger, Yahoo 360, blogs.com, are all blocked and I don’t know where to tell teachers to turn too if they want to More >
It was only a matter of time
Mar 22nd
Since Monday all blogger blogs have been blocked by China. It was good knowing you all for the past 5 months while blogger has been unblocked. It became unblocked when Google switched over to the new system and changed the IP address on its blogger server. This week China decided to block it again. Don’t worry the RSS feeds still come through, but I am not able to view a blogger site or leave a comment. So please know that I’m reading you, keeping up with what you’re writing…I just can’t respond.
Until the next unblocking…may your blog continue to bring More >
This doesn’t sound good
Mar 15th
China to expand ‘Great Internet Firewall’
AFP March 13, 2007
BEIJING – China will tighten controls on Internet blogs and Webcasts in a response to new technologies that have allowed cyber citizens to avoid government censorship efforts, state press reported Tuesday.
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