Where I’ll be in 17 days
Category: Journal
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…
More on NCTE’s SAT/ACT Report in the News
Chicago Tribune The Beauty of Brevity (editorial) USATODAY.com English Teachers Group Says New SAT Test Could Backfire Minneapolis Star Tribune Verbosity Over Eloquence Is New Worry on SAT Test HindustanTimes.com New SAT Attacked as Test of Stamina Tags: English language…
Puppy with a Dead Bird
I finally finished the technology profile lesson plan. It became Paying Attention to Technology: Reviewing a Technology. It doesn’t feel like a stellar lesson, but it’s done. I can’t decide what to write next. I have several ideas written down,…
Technology Counts 2005
x-posted to kairosnews.org EDWeek‘s Eighth Annual Report on School Technology: Technology Counts 2005: Electronic Transfer: Moving Technology Dollars in New Directions “The report includes in-depth articles on issues surrounding technology spending, state profiles, and the first-ever ranking of state technology…
Celebrate
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