GT Book Study Question 4

Being an educator and/or a parent, what skills would you need to develop in order to live, work, or create an educational environment of highly gifted. Why?

GT Book Study Question 3

This book is designed to share practical information and stories from those who have lived and or worked with profoundly gifted children. Which story, section, or piece of practical information did you like best or left an impression with you…and why? Don't forget to give page numbers.

GT Book Study Question 2

Chapter 5, pages 48 – 64, discussing different instruments for identifying the profoundly gifted. After reading this section, describe your belief as to the importance in correctly identifying these students. How do you see SBISD now and in the future serving the highly gifted?

GT Book Study Question 1

What was your overall impression of the first part of the book…and why? (Be specific with your answer and if giving an example from the book, remember to site the page(s)).

GT Book Study - High IQ Kids - Directions

SBISD educators participating in the fall GT Book Study on High IQ Kids are to post their responses to the first assigned reading. The questions will follow these directions. Each participant must respond to each posted question, then comment on at least 2 other people's responses.

Make sure you claim your responses! Don't post anonymously because you can't get credit that way!

The deadline to respond is October 20th.

Thing #14 - Technorati

This thing just didn't get me excited. I will say that I like the new layout of Technorati. When I visited earlier it was visually too busy and I just didn't want to deal with it. I'm a real sucker for a nice layout.

I did find a new blog that I had not found before, The "More" Child, so I appreciate that. I will visit periodically, but I'm having trouble coming up with ways to use it.

I like that Technorati has two-word tags unlike Del.icio.us. I have trouble getting it down to one word. I just need more practice with tags to improve my facilities in using them. It's a bit of a different way of thinking.

I am claiming my blog on Technorati:
Technorati Profile

Thing #13 - Tagging and Del.icio.us

Well that took forever! But all my bookmarks from my desk computer are in my del.icio.us account. I'm not looking foward to entering the bookmarks from my laptop, but there are much fewer sites marked and some will be duplicates. It has always been annoying to go the bookmarks on my laptop, only to discover the sites I was looking for were marked on my desk computer! This will really help.

I don't seem to be able to get the code needed to put a del.icio.us link on the sidebar of this blog. When I go to the link rolls page, the code never comes up. I can choose some things at the bottom, but code never appears in the box. Since I couldn't figure out how to make that work, I decided to try just adding the network badge. I copied the code in the box, pasted it in the html/Java box in my blog layout page, but nothing showed up! If you look at my side bar, you'll see blank spot where it should be. Any suggestions?

I like the flexibility of the tagging and I love being able to see other people's tags. I think this could be a great resource. I finally understand how to interpret those clouds! For me, they are very busy and bit frenetic to view, but they make a lot more sense now!

Publishing a link roll on your blog would be an interesting way for parents or teachers to keep track of a kid's interests. Rather than doing an interest inventory, you could view a kid's link roll or tag roll and see what they're bookmarking and tagging most often. It would also be a good way to keep track of internet research that kids are doing. It could be part of an assessment of a product.