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Twitter-pated Heracles

Recently, I’ve been caught up in the hoopla surrounding Twitter and been curious to see what its actual affordances are.  I figured if so...
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Practice and Theory: Collision, Rejection, or Adaptation?

Bailey’s set up resonates all too well with my experience thus far. Teachers learn wonderful theory and ideas in teacher-preparation, but, all too often,...

Penzu, Penzu, yes, I do! Penzu, Penzu, how ’bout you?

Penzu is an online journal.  However, it is also much more than that.  It provides a space where collaboration can occur, where assignments can...

Pinteresting, Very Pinteresting

Before working with Shimmy, I had zero familiarity with Pinterest and definitely had no notion of any possible connection it may bear within the...

Lifelong Learning

Barrett and Garrett present an idea which I depressingly find novel in “Online Personal Learning Environments.”  This notion of each person having on online...

Online Book Reviews

We all want kids to read.  We all want kids to read more.  We all want kids to enjoy reading.  What better way to...

Teachers and My Space–Friend or Unfriend?

I find Lewis’ piece interesting, primarily because of its date and more strikingly the dates of her sources.  For one, this piece was published in...

Differing Strategies for Differing Literacies

Web.  Print.  Anymore, both literacies stem from computers, so our students are 100% prepared to deal with both–assuming they’ve become proficient with one–right?  Wrong!...

Re-Think the Ink

This is a place for you to both teach and further explore the Wondrous World of Words. You’ve just become an expert on the...

#twitter

I have to say, I’ve never quite understood Twitter, but I also can’t say that I really do now.  Perhaps it’s my never-ending struggle...