(This post is dedicated to the aspiring writers out there.) Today, January 1, 2009, is the second birthday of Beyond School. What a short, strange trip it’s been. I’m not superstitious, but I love coincidences, synchronicities, and patterns as much as the next guy. So I’m going to trace those two years up to an [...]
Archives for the ‘writing’ Category
Clarifications (?) on “Slow Blogging” and “Fast Reading”
Friday, 12 December 2008
(A response to Morgante Pell’s “Slow Blogging in Fast Times.”) “Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” –Ben Hecht Nice post. I’m sympathetic to the thrust, but would argue it’s not the length of [...]
Sophocles, Oedipus, and the Fallacy of Free Will
Monday, 8 December 2008
Must. Read: 21-year-old on Slow Blogging
Monday, 8 December 2008
How Radio News-Writing and -Announcing Make for Ideal, Literacy-Focused Performance Assessment
Sunday, 7 December 2008
I’ve been meaning to scratch this itch of a digitized reading/writing/speaking unit for any school with basic podcasting gear for a while, but have been too busy. Busy with a new job, here in Seoul, writing and announcing radio news. I applied for it a good two months ago, and after a glacial hiring process, [...]
Deal, Doyle
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Blogging to Learn and Questions of Standards: A Dialogue
Monday, 27 October 2008
My Wikispaces in Education Webinar Presentation Video is Up
Friday, 24 October 2008
Last week, Wikispaces invited me to give a Wikispaces in Education Webinar about four wiki projects I’ve done in high school English and history classes: The Broken World Wiki Textbook, a student-made textbook of modern world history from WW1 to WW2, featuring text, images, and embedded videos and student video lectures (and linked to a [...]
Unsucky English, Lecture 1: On Gilgamesh, and Dangerous Questions
Tuesday, 26 August 2008
A Must-Read Science Teacher
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
In my perfect America, the evangelical radio stations choking out the dial are spreading the gospel of Science, not that of a religion of the downtrodden classes of the Roman Empire. Yes, science has its dark side, but so do the evangelicals’ “gods.” In my book, churches and laboratories are close to tied on the [...]






