The Polliwog Journal

One of our inservice days this year was dedicated to technology. In one session we learned about netTrekker, a subscription search tool for schools. It seems to be worth the money we paid to subscribe. I want our students to know how to use it, so I came up with a lesson to teach them [...]

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If you read The Polliwog Journal, you know I am a huge fan of blogs in the classroom, but especially for teachers as a means to reflect, share, and communicate with the broader teaching community. Not only that, but teachers who blog are more likely to engage their students in the interactive realm that blogs [...]

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AP students are often asked to analyze the diction of a passage. Diction means to some degree the author’s style, such as formal diction, but more technically diction means the author’s choice of words. I sometimes have students highlight words and phrases that have a similar tone or meaning. They may use more than one [...]

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Yesterday, I was at Bay Port High School (btw, what a beautiful school!!!) to teach a session called “Using Blogs and Wikis in the Classroom” for the Summer Instructional Technology Academy. There were about 20 teachers who were all great–all self starters and really excited to learn something new about blogs and wikis and how [...]

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This is fun, but wish we all had access to email accounts

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addthis_title = ’sita+class’;
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