The Polliwog Journal

A weblog about teaching English & integrating technology

Holy audience, and irony, Batman

September 6th, 2007 · 4 Comments

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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Tags: CyberEnglish · Philosophy

Missing an intersection in time and space

September 6th, 2007 · No Comments

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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Tags: School in general · Technology and Education

Pleasing paradox

September 6th, 2007 · 3 Comments

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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Tags: CyberEnglish