Scribing is a fascinating phenomenon. Of course it must be a good fit for the curriculum. My students blog but when we have scribed, they really decided they preferred the backchannel. So, when we need to take and share notes they just backchannel chat in skype or our chatzy room and I save as a PDF to go on the wiki or send out via email. I guess because we don't lecture a lot and do more projects their hands are on things and I found my scribe blogs languishing for lack of posts (I did this in accounting.)

To me, some of the most interesting scribe posts are in math because they catalog things and provide a searchable reference but really, it could be done for anything.

Thank you so much for sharing this list! Gotta love Chris Harbeck!

we are in our infancy here in Dauphin. Thanks to Ryan for showing me "the way".
http://drcssapma40s2009s1.blogspot.com/

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http://drcssapma30s09s1.blogspot.com/

Thanks for the tweet today, Vicki, and Cam, you're much further ahead and way too modest...Seriously, talking about blog scribe posts, wiki links, tweeting, and updating my ning discussions, you'd think I was losing touch with reality and the alphabet at the same time. I didn't graduate from university THAT long ago, and NONE of this existed then. Makes me think the next ten years of my career could be interesting. I've said it before, but this internet thing could get big.

About the scribing bit, I like it as a teacher, because (of course), the students have to see it, hear it, learn it, do it, think it and then go again and mash it up so that their buddies get it. No one, to my knowledge so far, does it/ did it better than Darren and Chris's classes, although my Manitoba bias is showing through. Cam and I may be outside the perimeter, but we're definitely working on catching up.

I do what I do now because it's much better than I used to do. I wonder what's much better than what I do now? That's my motivation for professional development, and it's why I listen when people like Darren, Chris, Vicki and Cam talk. Pleasure to call you all colleagues.

Cheers,

Darren, thanks for the shout-out! First time I know anyone has linked to my kids work! Scribing is going very well so far-taking it slow. Some great conversations developing just before tests.

I follow http://advancedfunctions09-10.blogspot.com which has scribes.

Darren - thanks for the mention and also for the inspiration that got us started.

Love this stuff you're doing Aaron!

And how did you get that coolest of all urls?!? ;-)

@Mr. Neal I spent some time poking around your class blog. Some really great stuff there. I particularly like the "Great Quotes" flickr project you've begun; I really love the idea of kids creating that kind of work in a Language Arts class! Some of those "slides" are really powerful.