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Entries from March 2009

Pamphleteers >> newspapers >> bloggers

March 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The main idea presented in this video is not new. For me, Miles Maguire, associate journalism professor at UW-Oshkosh, first made the connection between blogging and the first American journalists. But this video says it very well. I am a journalist at heart (though never actually), and the fact that newspapers (metropolitan dailies) as we [...]

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Tags: Culture · blogging

A question, phoned in from the bus

March 2nd, 2009 · 9 Comments

One of my AP students is also my yearbook editor and there are times we need to communicate, so we have each other’s cell phone numbers. Today, he and three of his classmates missed our class for a genetics conference, so I had set them up with the assignment: read Donne’s A Valediction Forbidding Mourning [...]

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Tags: Rewards of Teaching · Technology and Education