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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 This graphic [...]
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 [...]
Given the discussion that the Critical Studies had earlier this week about Morville and folksonomies — and what counts when doing background reading for research — this article from Wired makes me rethink how the research gets done in the first place. Scientists frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research [...]
Here are some notes from another presentation on campus: Using Multi-Media Records of K-12 Practice as Teacher Education “Texts” by Pam Grossman and Anna Ershler Richert In this presentation we will explore the use of web-based, multi-media representations of practice in teacher education. Both of us are affiliated with the Quest project, of the Carnegie [...]
Here is an article that features a summary of the great work being done by the New Literacies Research Team. I saw them at AERA earlier this year and I think that they are on to some interesting points about online reading, especially in light of all the Wikipedia-ish concerns this summer. Study aims to [...]
What is it with our affliction with Power Point? Check out today’s Foxtrot: FoxTrot by Bill Amend – September 8, 2006 Over the years, I have seen many cartoons, articles, and voices in education and the media taking pot shots at Power Point without ever really talking about the root of the problem: lacking a [...]
David makes an interesting point about blogs and assessment. After noting the old aphorism, “Not everything that is measurable is valuable and not everything that is valuable is measurable,” he adds this: I think the things that are most educationally valuable about blogs and read/write web tools are the hardest to measure. Certainly, the creativity [...]
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