The Polliwog Journal

I had a great day today. A somewhat foggy morning did not mar my appreciation for seeing Green Bay (the water, not the town) from Hwy 57 on my way to Sturgeon Bay in Door County, Wisconsin.  The fall colors were still vibrant, perhaps even more so as they had to fight for their dominance [...]

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For awhile I thought that FrontPage would kill CyberEnglish in the same way that video killed the radio star.
We’d been using FrontPage as the web editor for our students to create their websites since 2001, but FP is no longer supported by Microsoft. Also, our server was a Microsoft system set up to do live [...]

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Henry Jenkins from MIT predicts that we are facing a change in culture comparable to the Renaissance, which he says will proceed from a convergence of media. Technological Convergence, says Jenkins, has come from the digitization of all media content. “When words, images and sounds are transformed into digital information, we expand the potential relationships [...]

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Tim Walker interviewed me for the article Turning the Page: Students live in a Digital World. Are schools ready to join them? As always, I cannot believe the company I am privileged to keep.

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A Visual Representation of Bloom’s Taxonomic Hierarchy with a 21st Century Skills Frame
The graphic is very, very cool. I wish I could reproduce it here, but it would be best not to. I love how the tools that achieve the skill are shown at that level.

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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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If the terms “Blog,” “Ning,” and “Social Networking” are still nebulous to you, but you’re intrigued all the same about how you can engage both yourself and your students in these Web 2.0 tools, you may be interested in joining a new ning (online community of like-minded people, in this case, teachers or other affiliated [...]

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There is a Google meme game where you search your first name followed by “needs” and take the first ten logical responses and make a list. On facebook, you tag friends to do the same and perpetuate the challenge.
What if we took that idea and turned it into an analysis activity for literary characters. Instead [...]

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As a proponent of blogs for teachers and students, I am adamant that teachers must use the tools they hope to bring to the classroom. Teachers must blog, but what about friending people on facebook?
There were a variety of factors that propelled me to open my own facebook account this summer. The strongest was that [...]

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In this seventh iteration of CyberEnglish at Sheboygan Falls High School, it is again the students themselves who remind me why it is so important to keep insisting that we maintain our commitment to the concept of CyberEnglish itself. In addition, each year, teachers from all over the country write to me to ask me [...]

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