One Bag (all about packing, luggage, and travelling light)—given that I’m about the worst at packing in one bag or packing the right things for the trip at hand, this seemed like a useful link to save. I should restate…
Author: Traci Gardner
In the News: Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television – New York Times
Study Finds Test Scores Not Lowered by Television—an interesting study that compared testing results for pre-television communities to current communities. I’m not completely sure that I buy that these communities, decades apart, are a perfect match. So many other areas…
In the News: Better Love than Roses
Words of Love More Sought Than Roses – New York Times—there’s something interesting about this article, which tells us that “In the week before Valentine’s Day, people were more likely to search online for the keywords ‘love poems’ than for…
Daily Work of Varying Types
I did some rearranging in the kitchen, putting up small chrome shelves on the counter. I still don’t know where everything goes, but it’s better than it was. Otherwise, I was a laze-about. Spent a lot of time on GIC…
Daily Work: On a Saturday
I finally finished Donorboy so that I can read Flush. It ended PERFECTLY. Absolutely perfectly. One of the best, most realistic books I’ve read—and definitely the most authentic voices using technology. I knew I wasn’t crazy when I said those…
ReadWriteThink: Figuring Out Swift and Seuss
Forgive me as I freewrite a splat. You see I’m a little stuck on a lesson plan, and I can’t figure out where I want it to go (other than to end up as a perfect piece that I can…
ReadWriteThink: Gender Issues and Comics
The Calvin and Hobbes from 02/23/95 would be a great discussion starter for talk of media and gender. I may revise Comic Makeovers: Examining Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Media, or perhaps I could write up a 6&8211;8…
In the News: New Media and Podcasting
Education’s Next Wave? Duke Augments Its Embrace of iPods With Beta Trial of Apple’s iTunes U outlines ways that the university is using podcasts in the classroom to share media files. There’s so much potential here: giving students copies of…
ReadWriteThink: It Doesn’t Have to End That Way
Finished revising and published a fancy new version of It Doesn’t Have to End That Way: Using Prediction Strategies with Literature, a K-2 lesson plan that now uses one of my computers in children’s literature and technology books, Arthur’s Computer…
Inbox: Reading Across America (and Across the Grades)
March 2 is Read Across America Day, so it’s time to begin making plans for celebrations in the classroom. This week there was also an article in The Grand Rapid Times about a cross-level reading collaboration: Reading unites Calvin, Lee.…