One of the key parts of the Inquiry Process relates to questioning. This is so critical and difficult to fine tune in the classroom. Andrew does a lot of work with Essential Questions with 78T and Jamie McKenzie deals with questions comprehensively. It's worth revisiting some of his articles:
An index of a large number of questioning articles.
Some useful J McK articles:
http://www.questioning.org/sep04/irrelevant.html
http://www.questioning.org/questionpress.html
http://www.questioning.org/may04/serialquestioners.html
And especially the gargoyle article - Christine and Andrew probably remember this:
http://fno.org/feb01/pl.html
Socratic Questioning - http://changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/socratic_questions.htm
And I have ordered a copy of these books:
Another take on essential queations:
http://mrscaldwell0.edublogs.org/2007/03/09/166
Interesting Stuff on the Web:
Well then, who's responsible for global warming on Mars??? If Mars is warming up as well, and there are no humans or motor vehicles on Mars.....
Mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap, writes Jonathan Leake.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece
Videos for educators: http://www.nextvista.org/ A growing site with downloadable educational videos.
Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/66
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrp-FT51zPE Table tennis but not as we (I) know it!
Using tags in art museums - a new way to find things you're interested in: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28social.html?ex=1177646400&en=7a58b2951a48dbad&ei=5070
Student Art - Sydney: http://www.insideartexpress.com.au/exhibition/walk_through
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