I have been a Delicious user for nearly four years. I love it that I no longer lose my bookmarks and can take them with me from computer to computer. I love it that I can share my bookmarks with others and tag them according to a folksonomy that makes sense to me and enables…
Bill Genereux has an interesting post about what he calls “The True Digital Divide.” He discusses in detail something I touched on in my presentation at GCTE. If we truly want students to engage with the technology and use the Web 2.0 tools available to them, we have to be leaders. We have to use…
Some of you may know I went to the annual GCTE (Georgia Council of Teachers of English) convention this weekend. It was great, but the numbers were down — probably the economy. I know lots of the schools systems have probably told teachers they would not pay to send them to conventions this year. For…
I am so excited! Some time ago, I mentioned that two English teachers I’d love to see blogging are Jim Burke and Carol Jago. Jim Burke has created a Ning for English teachers, where, presumably, we can all look forward to regular posts in the form of blogs or forum posts from Jim! And Carol…
One of the features that I admired in Penny Kittle’s classroom as shown on the DVD accompanying Write Beside Them is a regular book talk in which Kittle shares good books with her class and has them write down titles that sound interesting in their writer’s notebooks. I tried it out, and realized my students…
Wired has a new, somewhat controversial article about blogging: Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug. Author Paul Boutin makes some valid points: The blogosphere is dominated by online magazines, corporations, and paid bloggers. Insult comments and trolls wreck personal blogging. Text-based…
Scott McLeod has shared the results of his 2008 Education Blogosphere Survey: I was a participant in the survey. Some of the slides moved by too quickly for me to read, but interesting fact for me — the number of English teachers blogging outstrips other subjects (and math comes in second). I imagine English teachers…
What podcasts do you listen to? Do you have any recommendations? I currently listen to Grammar Girl’s podcast, but I’m looking to expand my horizons now that I finally have an iPod (which I know is not required to listen to podcasts, but does make it easier). I am interested in recommendations on the following:…
If you are in the Georgia Independent Schools Association, and you’re going to the annual conference this year, feel free to stop in my session, “Using Blogs and Wikis for Professional Development,” if that topic is of interest to you. Vicki is also presenting about her Flat Classroom projects. My colleague at Weber, Mike, is…
ReadWriteWeb has an article about Google’s development of a new browser called Chrome. I followed the link and I like these features: It’s open source. It will have a task manager so users can track memory usage. The default homepage is a “speed dial” type feature with thumbnails of the most frequently visited Web pages….
