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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 ...

Well, what began as mere musings, seems to have become a fully fleshed fantasy for what a teacher prep program of the future may look like. It all began in Part 1 of this series of posts. It ...

I’m at CATE this weekend (California Association of Teachers of English) as both presenter and attendee. I'm doing two sessions: one on Internet Literacy (based on my recent workbooks) and one in a panel of Writing Project teachers on a ...

I've always been a multi-tasker. It frustrated my own teachers at times in that I always needed to be doing two things at once in order to be fully alert. My brain worked like riding a bicycle: if ...

I recently reviewed the Promethean Board, and more specifically its projector, for Projector Central.  You can read the article here.

I don't mean to whine, but I'm feeling neglected. For all my questions about the eventual impact on education with TFA, I find myself a little pouty that they get all this professional development and I don't.

So this week I introduced Costa's Levels of Questioning to my students. We have some teachers on my site talking about these triggers of metacognition so it compliments everyone's efforts to enter this discussion in the classroom. Costa's is, in ...

So in my semi-annual tradition, I've already lost my voice. Now, I'm not talking about still whispering here. I'm talking about a totally stripped, honk-when-I-try-to-produce-sound lost voice. It happens to me 2-3 times a year and I'm ...

I think that so much about encouraging literacy is about making it sexy. Make reading attractive and make it unavoidable to enjoy. I've written about my classroom library in the past, but I also wanted to let you know about the ...