pedablogical

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 full day—content report is due and an Ideas section for Inbox.

Finished a book review for Feed, a young adult science-fiction novel that explores the feed, a technology that is implanted in children’s heads, affects the various characters and the greater society.

Tags: English language arts | K12 instruction | lesson plan | ReadWriteThink

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 little Saturn to the garage today and had its oil changed. It’s all happy now. Also changed Stanley’s water and then watered the pouty purple plant.

While I was waiting for the oil change, I finished reading Click Here, but haven’t had a chance to write up a review yet. I did type up a list of the world’s worst technology metaphors. I can’t believe that no one cut those from that book!

Comparatively speaking though, the book’s stock rose when I picked up my next technology read: The E-Mail Mystery: Nancy Drew Digest #144.
Oh. my. goodness. I had such pleasant memories of Nancy Drew from childhood. I read every Nancy Drew mystery I could get my hands on. I sat down to begin this Nancy Drew-meets-technology novel, and was ready to put it down on page one. I’ve never seen so much tedious exposition. The technology in the book is fairly predictable. We hear of floppy disks, dialup modems, and booting up. And of course, there is e-mail, given the books title. I may give up on this one. I’ll give it a bit more time to grow on me, and then I may put Nancy Drew back on the nostalgic shelves.

Tags: blogshares |
young adult literature

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 replace the ingredient labels of candy wrappers with tiny scanned crib sheets or load low-cost USB flash drives with hundreds of megabytes of notes.” The Kansas City Star (Mo.) (free registration)

Tags: cheating |
plagiarism |
technology

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 something.

Last night I realized that I could use go@blogger.com to post with my cell phone while I’m up at Michigan Tech next month. I’m not going to write entries obviously, but I am imagining a bit of photo publishing.

A few more books arrived, but I’m still reading Click Here. Can’t wait to write up the review, or more accurately the list of quotations, from that book. :)

Tags: photoblogging |
young adult literature