Posted in Web 2.0 on Sep 6th, 2008 2 Comments »
Larry Ferlazzo recently wrote here about Cellphones In Class and expressed skepticism about including this technology in an his particular education setting. Just to give some background, some of those headlines about cell phones being used to phone in fights, could have come from Larry’s school site a few years back (I know because I [...]
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 Web 2.0 on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
In Practice blogger Doug Noon has been selected as a SOB (Successful and Outstanding Blogger) by Liz Strauss. See what he has to say about this. All I can say is that it’s well deserved.
Posted in Policy, Practice, Resources, Web 2.0, technology on Feb 9th, 2008 5 Comments »
agony! on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
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. [...]
