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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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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Ryan Bretag, in a recent post in his blog The Four Eyed Technologist, said that NCTE is “moving toward the future,” but then chides gently, “(or is that the present).” Either way, NCTE has its seatbelt securely fastened on the 21st c. literacy skills bandwagon. Now that I think about it, bandwagon may be the [...]

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CyberEnglish 1
Part one of a two part interview with Dr. Susan Antlitz aired on Saturday, February 23 on WMWK FM. Antlitz, the Community Issues program host, is also a writing instructor at Joliet Junior College.
Part two will air next week.

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I will be this Friday at the Wisconsin State Reading Association convention. Claire Wick from CESA 7 invited me to join her and Deb Sixel, tech guru from Kiel High School.
I’ll be talking about what I love, so it should be easy & FUN!

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The long story is infuriating to me and probably boring for you, so the short story is that about a month ago, I got a new hard drive, essentially a new computer. And while it’s working great, I have had to make some adjustments. I don’t have all the old software.
I used to have Microsoft [...]

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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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