The Polliwog Journal

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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Yesterday, I was at Bay Port High School (btw, what a beautiful school!!!) to teach a session called “Using Blogs and Wikis in the Classroom” for the Summer Instructional Technology Academy. There were about 20 teachers who were all great–all self starters and really excited to learn something new about blogs and wikis and how [...]

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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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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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