First of all, I want to thank the folks who link to me in spite of the fact that I don’t update as much as I’d like. I did what some might consider a foolish thing and compartmentalized several of my interests across four different blogs, and the end result is no single one of…
My blog is one year old today.
In the midst of public debate over the safety of MySpace users, MySpace is addressing concern with new restrictions (free registration or BugMeNot). MySpace users over 18 cannot friend users 15 and younger unless they know the user’s full name and/or e-mail address. As the AP article points out, however, MySpace (and for that matter,…
Blogger blogs hosted at Blogspot.com have been down for hours. There has been no news from either Blogger or Google (who owns Blogger) about the outage. Rumors are starting to fly about a DNS attack. Blogger’s status page is inaccessible, but it looks like you can still login and even update. At any rate, the…
Who would you like to see start blogging? I would love to see Jim Burke and Carol Jago start blogging. Both have contributed so much interesting dialogue to the field of English Education that I can’t see how they can fail to be excellent bloggers. Of course, there is that sticky problem of how much…
The obvious answer is “me,” because the students don’t seem to be getting much out of it. This is a short vent about my students. Each day, I post an update to my classroom blog. It doesn’t take long. I find it enjoyable. I give them a short literary story, then I recap the day…
Without realizing it, I seem to have hit upon a hot topic in the technology in education blogosphere with my post about student blogging yesterday. I was simply thinking about concerns I have about my own students — and reminded that I had meant to post about those concerns by Bud Hunt. I have been…
I recently wrote about students being suspended for blogging at a Catholic high school in New Jersey. It seems that the dangers inherent in student blogging have been a hot topic recently in the education blogosphere. Ed Wonk writes about students in Texas who faced disciplinary action because of the content of their blogs. But…
According to an article in Teen People, students at Pope John XIII Regional High School in Sparta, New Jersey will be suspended if it is discovered that they are maintaining “personal pages or blogs.” Principal Reverend Kieran McHugh explains that he instated the rule in order to protect students from online predators. “I don’t see…
I have noticed two interesting trends in educational blogging. First, most of the teacher bloggers I’ve come across are new teachers with less than three years experience. Second, educator blogs tend to be complain fests in the manner that my old teachers’ lounge was. Before you get upset with me, let me explain that I…
