Posted in Research, Web 2.0, technology on Apr 6th, 2008 1 Comment »
Crossposted on Borderland:
Once upon a time I looked forward to seeing mainline literacy journals take an interest in blogging. So, it was good to see an article in this month’s Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy on using of blogs for literature study, Weblogs and Literary Response: Socially Situated Identities and Hybrid Social Languages in [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, Web 2.0, technology on Mar 21st, 2008 4 Comments »
I’m a big fan of technology and web 2.0 opportunities. My students have their own blogs and we have several class wikis (all in Blackboard because that’s our county’s system). We have a class delicious site with a growing number of links, some of which relate to our curriculum and some that don’t. They’re learning [...]
Posted in Practice, technology on Mar 4th, 2008 9 Comments »
I’ve written several posts here sharing my skepticism about technology in the classroom, and my impatience with some who complain about Teachers Who Won’t Embrace Technology. I’ve also written about some technology experiments I’m trying in our school, including next year teaching one class all with laptops (or all in the computer lab) and [...]
Posted in Humor, Lessons Learned, Policy, Practice, Uncategorized, technology on Feb 13th, 2008 3 Comments »
Many bloggers have written complaining about teachers not using technology in their classrooms. Rather than complain, Jeff Utecht’s recent post on “Evaluating Technology Use” established a rubric for evaluating technology use. But what if you are a new teacher or you aren’t using technology in your classroom now? It’s not reasonable to expect that you’re [...]
Posted in Policy, Practice, Resources, Web 2.0, technology on Feb 9th, 2008 5 Comments »
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I have a sister post to this going out on my own blog at Miz Mercer.
Lots of mostly unpleasant conversations about folks resisting the lure of technology in the classroom. This round of the conversation started on with a blogger and blog I greatly admire, Scott McLeod’s Dangerously Irrelevant. [...]
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