The Polliwog Journal

I felt confined by a rubric this morning, more than ever. When I read the book Rethinking Rubrics in Writing Assessment by my friend Maja Wilson, I agreed with her premise but had not felt, in practice, the same angst she had felt when she conceived the book in the first place. I get it [...]

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My English 11 students posted comments on a class Blog that I developed this summer, hoping to integrate CyberEnglish ideas into my junior class. We do a great job in ninth grade but seem to tumble back into the 19th century after that.
The first question I posted had to do with Blogging itself and how [...]

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 Thanks to Bud Hunt, from whose site I “stole” this link.

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The Fakebook Generation
I have to admit, I never got on board with Facebook or MySpace or quite understood the need to accumulate friends with online social networking. Business or professional online networking I understand. I’ve been to Second Life and thought it was cool, but to hang there with people I don’t really know seems [...]

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Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, says in the New York Times, October 2007:
New findings have uncovered a design flaw at the interface where the brain encounters a computer screen: there are no online channels for the multiple signals the brain uses to calibrate emotions.
Face-to-face interaction, by contrast, [...]

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