I just completed an assignment which required me to research copyright and fair use (first useful assignment in that course, sadly), and I thought I would share some of what I learned here in case it’s helpful to you: Your students in grades K-6 may not necessarily be expected to understand how much material they…
As he was leaving today, a student paid a compliment to my Hero with a Thousand Faces class. I’m not sure if I was meant to respond to the comment. I didn’t. We were chatting about our schedule on Thursday, which differs from a usual Thursday schedule for a lot of reasons that aren’t germane…
I am becoming increasingly irritated with requests, nay offers, from people I don’t know to do guest posts on my blog. Let me get this straight. You are offering me the opportunity to loan you my blog to promote your [fill in the blank] in exchange for. what? Decreased control over the content on my…
I have been plagued with a question over the last few days. When students ask me questions about computers (mostly software, how-to type questions), I most often take the easy path and show or tell them. But they don’t remember how to do it later. So the question that’s been on my mind is how…
OK, I asked before what the big deal is, and I suppose I cannot assuage my curiosity unless I actually try it out, so first I watched this video: [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ddO9idmax0o” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] And I signed up for a Twitter account, and you can follow me if you like. I think the true…
One of the first classes in my IT program is a course entitled Education and the Web. Based on the title alone, it was the one class I was really looking forward to because the title led me to believe it would treat up-to-date tools and uses of the Web in education. How silly of…
I really enjoyed Tom Woodward’s recent post “There Are No Shortcuts at Bionic Teaching,” but I left a comment that really didn’t say all I was thinking. Tom mentions using fun fonts to make boring content exciting (and has particular ire for Comic Sans). I have been known to use fun fonts, but I hope…
I started my master’s degree on Monday, and I have been so busy! I had a problem with direct deposit and my student loan, so I had to wait until today to get a new computer for school. The nice Mac iBook that Betsy gave me months ago died. It made me very sad. Well,…
The New York Times has an interesting article about how literacy is changing as more teens read online. I am obviously an English teacher, and I have a lot invested in books, but I also read a lot online, and I see the value. What do you think?
Twiggs County Schools, a small system in Middle Georgia, is reinstating corporal punishment. As a first year teacher, I taught English at Twiggs County High School. They definitely had a major problem with discipline at that time. In fact, I’ve never seen anything more insane in my life. However, violence in the form of gang…
