Finished a lesson plan that I began Friday night. Cooking Up Descriptive Language: Designing Restaurant Menus is now published on ReadWriteThink. I have several other lesson ideas, but can’t seem to focus on any of them. Tomorrow will be a…
Author: Traci Gardner
Blogopoly & Other Bad Technology Metaphors
Friends from #blogshares shared the link for blogpoly. We’re all a little confused about the groupings there, but it’s interesting nonetheless. Blog research folks might want to look at what’s represented and what’s not, and etc. I took the cute…
Wily cheaters exploit popular gadgets
xposted to Kairosnews From ASCD SmartBrief: Wily cheaters exploit popular gadgets “As cheaper cell phones, cameras and other gadgets become more widespread with students, some fear that “technocheating” could grow. Districts are taking steps to thwart clever students, who ingeniously…
photoblogging :)
The last couple of days have been littered with whatnot that needed done. Fixing little booboos and such. I had my meeting with the Senior Editor about my proposal. Now I guess I’m supposed to be writing a manuscript or…
Where I’ll be in 17 days
Gift wrapping makes a great day
Today began happily with a package from LiteratiCat, which held my gift-wrapped winnings from the contest on teenliterature. An excellent way to begin the day. I wrote my Ideas section for this week’s Inbox, this week on reflection as a…
Literary Parodies and more…
Finished writing and published a ReadWriteThink lesson, Literary Parodies: Exploring a Writer’s Style through Imitation. It’s a pretty typical assignment, but I had nice links, including to the Guy Noir episode, that I wanted to put together. Reading Click Here,…
meblogging
Just found that not only is my plan to use technorati to track different technologies in the book reivews okay—it’s even got a name: meblogging! The practice that site describes is slightly different, but it’s the same idea really, so…
under review
Took time today to read the technorati documentation and begin tagging my changelog entries. I’ve finished all of May, which sounds impressive unless you realize that it’s only the 7th. Still, I think I have a system set up, and…
From The Little Red Computer to The Secret Blog of Raisin Rodriguez
xposted to Kairosnews.org Quick—how would you say children first learn about and experience technologies? My typical answer used to point to television and movie depictions, commercials and advertisements, video games, access to computers in the home. As I’ve spent more…