When I attended an ELA meeting last week, one of the other participants made us aware of a great online resource: NetTrekker. It is an interface with hundreds of pre-screened and categorized websites on numerous topics from grammar to digital storytelling and more. Check out the press release and then the tool by signing up [...]
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Wikis as a collaborative and social writing tool – and not just a way for students to cheat by calling something “original” material or for someone to create truth through “wikiality” – are starting to come into the news. But, I don’t think it is enough. For instance: Recently, Columbia University has begun to embrace [...]
As we think about the types of writing we ask students to do in school, and whether or not they feel it is for a real audience and purpose, can it even come close to this? Nick Barnowski is in multitask mode. His fingers dance around a keyboard, keeping up his end of the bargain [...]
So, I ran across TIME.com: 50 Coolest Websites the other day. There are many great sites on here that I have tried already like Jumpcut, YouTube, and Charity Navigator, but many more to explore. I am curious… does anyone else have experience with any of these websites that Time thinks is cool? As an educator, [...]
Newsweek has added its thoughts on the negative aspects of social networking: What happens when the identity you reveal to friends suddenly overwhelms the façade you present to grown-ups? The results can be awkward—or worse. Photos from drunken parties, recollections of sexual escapades, profanity or threats—all these indiscretions, posted online, have gotten students suspended or [...]
Hey, like the new banner? When I was talking with other Tech Liaisons a few weeks ago in Chico, Writely was one of the hot topics. With the potential for real-time collaboration, Writely finally delivers what many teachers using technology in their writing classrooms have been asking for over the past many years that Word [...]
By now, you have seen Stephen Cobert’s piece on Wikiality. If you haven’t, watch it before you read on. In this response to the piece, Frank Ahrens of the Washington Post takes an interesting angle on how and why Wikipedia works: But if Wikipedia is going to exist as an open-source resource and is going [...]
A study from the University of Toronto’s Linguistics Department has now verified what many writing teachers have been trying to argue all along — instead of ruining kids’ grammar, IM is actually a different discursive register and that kids end up code switching between IM and other forms of communication quite clearly. Here is an [...]
For the moment, the home page of Tech Matters 2006 reads like this… Tech Liaisons participating in Tech Matters ’06 are from all over the country. Look at the map below to see where everyone is from and what Writing Project they are with. NWP : Technology Matters 2006 : Welcome! Sadly enough, I am [...]
This site is at least my third attempt to integrate blogging into my day-to-day professional life. This time, I am making a pledge to blog on a regular basis and begin conversing with my many NWP colleagues who are blogging, too. I am at the Tech Matters Institute this week, so there is no better [...]
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