Although I wasn’t really able to join the conversation tonight through Skype, the Teachers Teaching Teachers crew asked a great question tonight:
Do our blogs have a student-sponsored life of their own? Have our blog sites moved beyond Fisher’s “new literacy practices as sugar” to allowing students to “combine their concerns and self interest with the [...]

Before the NWP Annual meeting, I had three separate conversations (one by email, one by phone, and one in person) with colleagues from the local, state, and national level about why and how to use digital reading and writing in their classrooms and for professional development. I had many more of these conversations at the [...]

Whether or not you agree with the politics of ETS, this is an interesting commentary on our times and the ways in which we access information.
Inside Higher Ed :: Are College Students Techno Idiots?
More interesting are the many comments below the main article, in which one responder takes up the issue that using Google [...]

It’s been a busy two weeks without much time to blog here, but a link to this article from NCTE’s Inbox caught my eye. This fall, I have been pushing friends and colleagues to go paperless with free and open source applications, like Google Docs, and even though this isn’t quite the same, seeing that [...]

Hey, I am still blogging. I am just over at the RCWP blog, talking about things going on in Nashville this weekend. See you there.

I had barely checked this book out from the library, based on a recommendation from Leigh, and it got recalled. Similar in argument to Cuban’s Oversold and Underused, Oppenheimer paints a pretty grim picture of technology use in schools. I agree with many of his points, however, and this one in particular:
And obviously, the World [...]

Now, here is a great way to kill time and generate cool graphics for your blog:

typoGenerator
Interestingly enough, the warning at the bottom of this image says “the images used for generating may be subject to copyright.”
Also interesting, as soon as I clicked away from the page, the temp image that was stored — and that [...]

For the long delay, I apologize, but I wanted to share the news that one of the teachers who presented a workshop for us this summer, Gene Yang, has been selected as a finalist for the National Book Award.
Hooray!

Gene Luen Yang

American Born
Chinese

First
Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck
About the Book

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Goodbye 3×5 cards.
No, really, this time I mean that you must get rid of these cards and jump feet first into the web-based research revolution. Easybib was cool, but this is awesome.
I just downloaded and installed Zotero, a Firefox extension. Here is part of the press release from the Center for History and New Media [...]