The Polliwog Journal

A weblog about teaching English & integrating technology

CyberEnglish moves to Blogging

October 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: CyberEnglish · Technology and Education · blogging

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

Beyond bricks and mortar

February 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

I have another, yes, another new blog. It’s actually an old blog that I forgot I had but accidentally found. I’ve dusted it off and given it a new name: Ms. Hogue’s Classroom, and I’ve given it a new purpose.
I’m going to be speaking at the Wisconsin State Reading Association on February 8 about using [...]

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Tags: Technology and Education

The election, the Internet and democracy

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

There’s a flaw in me as a teacher. I should be skating away on thin ice into my retirement years, but I don’t. I continue to develop new units in an attempt to make school meaningful and relevant for students. I know! What am I thinking? But I just can’t help myself.
I recently created a [...]

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Tags: School in general · Technology and Education