The Polliwog Journal

One of the first things we do in CyberEnglish9 is create Websites. Right now, my 86 9th graders are beginning to imagine themselves as Web designers. More than that, they’ve begun to understand that the content they create for the Web and the way they present that content will have a potentially larger audience than [...]

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You never know when you’ll find yourself out there on the Web, something I tell my CyberEnglish students all the time. I tell them that creating content on the Web means that your real audience is potentially anyone. I also say that not too many people, probably, will be interested in their essays on To [...]

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I missed David Warlick’s post called Technology & Teachers, a Rant but it compares in some ways with what I wrote for the Paying Attention? video.
The lament lives.

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It was the third day with my new CyberEnglish students, and while I recognize that a honeymoon period exists and it is hubris to attribute too much glee to a happy honeymoon, things are going very, very well and I like my new students–a lot!
So I was helping them reset their email passwords and showing [...]

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Video: “Did You Know?” by Karl Fisch
I don’t have much to say about this video that I didn’t say for the one below. This one is better. Seems more globally focused versus the other which is more teacher oriented. But both messages are critically important.
As I am about to step into my classroom for [...]

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