Oh, hello there. Fancy seeing you ’round these parts. There are excuses aplenty for the radio silence over here. Here’s the general gist (though I hope, with the summer, to be a bit more present): 1. While I’ve been pretty quiet here, I’ve been busy doing a ton of writing elsewhere. There are several “in [...]
A busy semester with updates in abundance soon. For now a few quick, DML-related notes: If you are going to be at the DML conference this week or the Make2Learn symposium tomorrow, send me a tweet and say hello. (I’m also one of the judges for the M2L youth competition – looking forward to the [...]
It took a Monopoly-related announcement to get me out of my blogging hibernation. The bulk of the article is focused on the fact that the new Monopoly piece will be a cat, based on a popular vote. It is mentioned, secondly that the feline will be replacing the iron as your capitalist token of success [...]
Happy new year! As I finish up non-blogging activities before the semester starts up, here is a featured Q&A with me at DML. Enjoy!
During the NCTE convention last month I gave a five-minute ignite talk. It was fun and stress inducing and of a different style than the other presentations and meetings I participated in while at the Las Vegas conference. Apparently, the talk was supposed to be recorded but it wasn’t. I was asked to repeat the [...]
Just because we can have an entire class via Twitter doesn’t mean we should. Scrolling through my morning news the other day, I cam across this Chronicle blogpost: “In Classroom Experiment, All Discussion Happened via Twitter.” Based on the article, the experiment took place for one class. It’s not clear if the class will sustain [...]
My students at CSU are crazy (and awesome)! I was inspired by the classroom dynamic in my composition course to blog about ties and public writing and classroom community. Read the post at DMLcentral here.
FACT: This photo is featured prominently in one of my NCTE sessions … that’s how awesome this conference will be. The NCTE annual conference is coming up this week. It’s going to be a busy (and awesome) conference. I’ll post my general itinerary below (noting that there are some time conflicts that are problematic). However, I’d [...]
I think it’s getting worse. I used to hold my tongue and nod along with everyone else. The problem is I’m tired of not seeing folks of color in films. I’m tired of picking “good” YA texts for the classes I’m teaching and seeing white privilege reinforced on every page. I’m tired of not seeing [...]
On Tuesday, October 16 I’ll be speaking at Scripps College as a part of their Social Media/Social Change series. Hopefully this will be less a lecture and more a dialogue. The talk is titled “Control, Resistance and Play: a Discussion of Mobile Media, Pedagogy and Civic Engagement in Public Schools” and will extending work conducted [...]