Carolyn Foote wrote this week about the new Pew study on the effects of technology on teen writing. An article about the study in eSchool News (free subscription - well worth it - required) pulls out a few details that for me, at least, suggest some weird thinking. The “news” that
[t]eens who […]
Category Archives: blogging
For the Roses: My Latest Position on Classroom Blogging
May 1, 2008 – 5:29 am
From TweetClouds to TagCrowds - Another Voluntary Meme
April 30, 2008 – 12:09 pm
[Update: I added a complete novel you should be able to guess, just to give you an idea of what this would look like (h/t to Adrienne for the spark).]
Going Deeper with Post-Clouds
Since a lot of people seemed to enjoy the TweetClouds as Windows of the Soul meme, I thought this bit of serendipity snagged […]
Diigo “Jury” Needed on 74-Comment Assessment Post Debate
April 28, 2008 – 10:41 pm
First, a mini-photo essay on my own point of view about privileging writing over speaking when grading in the collaborative, networking, multimedia century:
Three weeks after the Diigo stampede, I’ve been concerned that the new trend of putting Diigo annotations on posts instead of leaving comments in the thread was a negative thing. Only Diigo […]
Unschooly Students on Teachers Teaching Teachers
April 28, 2008 – 6:34 am
I promised in an earlier post to give the link when Teachers Teaching Teachers posted its podcast with students weighing in on “How to Be Unschooly” in blogs, Twitter, and more. Consider it done. It is so worth a listen.
There’s something to say, too, about the back-story on this. Soojin, the Korean student who […]
Aggregators as Couches, Comments as Salons
Another limitation of RSS readers I’ve often griped about before: with a few exceptions (Bloglines for one), they exclude comment threads from the feed. This sends entirely the wrong message: that the posts are the main thing, and the writer of the blog is the expert.
I operate on the opposite assumption: I post my thoughts […]