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So recently my colleague, Kenna McRae, and I began using Skype between our two classrooms. Whenever I have a hair-brained idea, I know I can count on McRae to jump in and experiment with me. And I think the level ...

Lately I've been intrigued by recent studies on this topic of "hybrid teaching." So when the most recent portion of The Metlife Survey of the American Teacher was released, I was eager to read its findings about "hybrid approaches ...

OK, so I was recently involved in an online debate about the merits of using Twilight in the classroom. Actually, it turned out to be not much of a debate, because despite our differences of opinion about the quality ...

This past weekend, as many of you know, President Obama’s new, revised-NCLB plan was released in both the New York Times and the Washington Post. My parents called after finishing up their Sunday morning ritual of newspaper-n-coffee to downshift about ...

Dear Arne Duncan, The rumor on the winds that whispers through the halls is that funding for the National Writing Project will soon be threatened. I understand that the Obama administration is moving to consolidate expenses by merging a number ...

Thank you as well to those of you (wow!  there were a lot of you!) who attended my "Internet Literacy: The Genre" session at CUE. As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure. As with everything on ...

Thank you to everyone who attended my session today at CUE on "Podcasting with 70 Middle Schoolers." As promised, here is the keynote itself to peruse at your leisure. As with everything on my site, this work is ...