Posted in Lessons Learned, technology on Jun 8th, 2009 8 Comments »
This is a cross-post that originally appeared on Reflections on Teaching
I love getting and reading the Sacramento Bee, and love being able to read it online. The comments however are a real mix of the bitter and the sweet. I hate how the limited space in the print version constricts representations of different points of [...]
Posted in Lessons Learned, technology on Sep 27th, 2008 12 Comments »
Earlier this month I wrote a post here critical of having students use cellphones in the classroom and shared why we banned their used during the school-day at my inner-city school.
In that same post I just briefly mentioned that this year we also banned iPods from the school, though I didn’t go into the reasons [...]
Posted in technology on Sep 14th, 2008 13 Comments »
Blogger Gary Stager is never afraid to speak his mind, and often provides a lot of food for thought. I’m a regular reader.
Sometimes, though, as all iconoclasts do, I think he goes a bit too far. His critique of VoiceThread was one of those times, and his just-published post that begins “Brainpop gives me [...]
Posted in technology on Sep 5th, 2008 12 Comments »
Alice Mercer and I have recently had a couple of discussions about the use of cellphones in the classroom, and there have been a number of other recent blog posts about it — including in Darren Draper’s fine blog.
However, I’m still not convinced cellphone use in the classroom is generally a good idea.
I think having [...]
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 [...]
