The Polliwog Journal

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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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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I had created my del.icio.us account quite awhile ago, but never played with it until this week (spurred by Dawn Sahouani’s reminder to try it).
The real value of del.icio.us is the connectivity it provides. I like that I can save urls and find them easily later, from any computer, but what’s really cool is to [...]

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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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