Crisp Conversation
Salon Sparkles provides a venue for crisp ideas to spark conversation.
“Lettuce is like conversation: it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.”
~ Charles Dudley Warner
~ Charles Dudley Warner
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Guidelines for Online Comments, Forums, Blogs, etc. at Salon Sparkles:
This site hopes to spark intelligent dialogue. To ignite that vision, we will snuff comments that contain the following:
• abusive language
• unrelated material
• excessive foul language
• personal attacks
• racist, sexist, homophobic, and other discriminatory speech
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To report an offensive or abusive comment, contact teacher.se@gmail.com
This site hopes to spark intelligent dialogue. To ignite that vision, we will snuff comments that contain the following:
• abusive language
• unrelated material
• excessive foul language
• personal attacks
• racist, sexist, homophobic, and other discriminatory speech
• spam, including solicitations and/or advertising
To report an offensive or abusive comment, contact teacher.se@gmail.com
Disclaimer
The Salon Sparkles Sites are intended as a community area for the sharing of ideas among various voices and for stimulating high quality debate on many issues. Posts and comments may be personal and may not represent the views of Salon Sparkles or its agents.
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Welcome to the Conversation
Good conversation helps us think. Hopefully, these sparks of conversation will spur you to talk to your family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and online neighbors (in chats, blogs, forums, emails, social networks, wikis, etc.).
A salon is like a symposium from ancient Greece: it's a place to discuss important subjects. I first read about "salons" in the Utne Reader. With the onset of social networking, salons occur online.
As a grandmother and a teacher, I hope that these ideas promote both online and dinner table salons with salons whose conversations will move the world closer to a positive, productive, and peaceful world.
Perhaps we will bring back the "clothesline" and renew our neighborly ways.
Sheri Edwards
Go boldly and scatter seeds of kindness...
Reflect curiosity and wonder...
A salon is like a symposium from ancient Greece: it's a place to discuss important subjects. I first read about "salons" in the Utne Reader. With the onset of social networking, salons occur online.
As a grandmother and a teacher, I hope that these ideas promote both online and dinner table salons with salons whose conversations will move the world closer to a positive, productive, and peaceful world.
Perhaps we will bring back the "clothesline" and renew our neighborly ways.
Sheri Edwards
Go boldly and scatter seeds of kindness...
Reflect curiosity and wonder...
Blog Posts
Why call for connected classrooms?
Why call for connected classrooms?
A connected classroom utilizes the current social activities of the web -- cell phones, wiki collaboration, social networks, videos, blogs and comments, etc. -- to engage students in thoughtful conversations of learning.
It's not just the future pulling us forward, it's the need that… Continue
Posted by Sheri on December 28, 2008 at 6:28pm
Summer Reading Safety: Street Lights / Tweet Types
"Not it!" chimed three of us together just as the street lights clicked on.
"Gotta go," I called to my friends.
That was the family rule as I grew up: in the summer-time curfew came when the street lights beamed on; we returned to the safety of home.
Today we can choose to exist in a twenty-four-hour, perpetual world. When the street lights start their night-time watch, we've probably already spent an hour watching tv, listening to music, chatting via phone or… Continue
"Gotta go," I called to my friends.
That was the family rule as I grew up: in the summer-time curfew came when the street lights beamed on; we returned to the safety of home.
Today we can choose to exist in a twenty-four-hour, perpetual world. When the street lights start their night-time watch, we've probably already spent an hour watching tv, listening to music, chatting via phone or… Continue
Posted by Sheri on July 10, 2008 at 2:30pm
Summer Reading and Writing
What are you reading this summer? A book? A recipe? A newspaper? A twitter? A blog?
What will you write this summer? A book? A recipe? A letter to the editor? A twitter? A blog?
I teach middle school writing in a small rural public school. What will my students read and write? More importantly, who and how will they be reading and writing?
Education faces a dilemma: The future flies at us, and the students zoom ahead learning as they go with a need of some guidance to… Continue
What will you write this summer? A book? A recipe? A letter to the editor? A twitter? A blog?
I teach middle school writing in a small rural public school. What will my students read and write? More importantly, who and how will they be reading and writing?
Education faces a dilemma: The future flies at us, and the students zoom ahead learning as they go with a need of some guidance to… Continue
Posted by Sheri on July 4, 2008 at 7:00pm
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