The Polliwog Journal

You know how sometimes you just grab onto something, like a little analogy and it sort of fits? Well, the other day I was explaining the Living Histories project to my ninth graders and reminding them that they needed a minimum of 10 hyperlinks throughout their project. I told them that I did not want [...]

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It’s spring, well nearly so, and in Wisconsin where we are stretched to the limits of our endurance with cold, snow, and dull, grey skies, we are giddy when spring arrives, almost insanely so.
And because we are of hard-working European ancestry, we make productive use of our new daylight hours by cleaning, refreshing, and renewing, [...]

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I convinced my sister and brother-in-law to let my niece and I begin blogging. My niece is an avid reader and she writes the occasional poem. Our blog is called InkSpot, and it’s tucked away very privately right now, but I can she as she gets older, that we might emerge into public view (I [...]

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I’ve been writing, speaking, and thinking about CyberEnglish a lot lately, but today, as I was reading students’ cyberjournals, I was reminded of the simple things that make CyberEnglish so important. In her journal, Lilly wrote
Putting your assignments online really forces you to look at your writing and make changes. In most classes I [...]

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CyberEnglish_2
Part two of a two part interview with Dr. Susan Antlitz aired on Saturday, March 1 on WMWK FM. Antlitz, the Community Issues program host, is also a writing instructor at Joliet Junior College.
In this episode:

hypertext
how I got started in CyberEnglish
helping students become citizens of the Web
21st century technology, including Blogs and Wikis
why students [...]

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