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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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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When I began teaching in 1990, I got no tour of the school, no handbook of helpful tips, and no mentor to guide me. I got shown my room that was barely ready for school. Undaunted, I plunged into the deep end and did not drown. To be fair, I didn’t know one should expect [...]

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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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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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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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