Two weeks ago I was announced as one of the Department of Education’s Teaching Ambassadors. I spent a week in Washington D.C. with an impressive cohort of other Fellows and I can’t be more excited for what I think this national collective can accomplish. As a Classroom Fellow, I’ll still continue to teach at Manual [...]
I’ve embedded my slides for my AERA presentation, “Can You Hear Me Now?: Student Voice in the Battle For Cell Phone Use in a Less Than Receptive School” below. I’ve reused some of these slides for various presentations at this point and I feel ready to retire most of this for something newer on the [...]
Actual updates will be here shortly. In the meantime, the Black Cloud is featured on the Buckminster Fuller Challenge site today. Please check it out. (Aclima is shortlisted as a semi-finalist for the BFI Challenge Award this year. The winner will be announced in June.)
The current issue of XChange, published online by UCLA’s Center X is focused around “Media & Techno Literacies.” There are some tremendous resources up there for current teachers as well as plenty of readings to peruse. The “Rethinking MySpace” article I wrote a while ago can be found here along with a brief introduction about [...]
A paper I co-authored (and partially adapted from my work in a course about Dewey and democracy) was presented at the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Multimedia Conference in Beijing last week. Though you (or your institution) will need a subscription to download it, the abstract (below) and the list of citations (linked) should give [...]
As LAUSD continues to layoff some of the best teachers I know, I wonder how effective any of the multi-pronged union efforts has been. Strikes (legal, illegal, “wildcat”, hunger, sit-ins, you name it) get piddles of press here and there. While I’m not comfortable yet in fully speculating on the direction of UTLA, LAUSD, or [...]
Sheryl Grant wrote a useful overview of what transpired during Black Cloud Game 1.0. Read it here. While you’re at it, you can check out video from the Humanities 2.o MLA Conference Panel over here. Not much of an update, I realize. I hope to write about this in the next day or so. (For [...]
I am quoted in this Edutopia article about the Internet, classroom barriers, and how I’ve gotten around them. Aside from horn-tooting purposes, I think the article offers some practical solutions to the tech challenge many of us face. It’s another step in the direction of my push for a pro-cell phone classroom. If you’re stumbling [...]
KCET Web Video about the Black Cloud: We all know that air pollution is a major problem in Southern California. Last year, Los Angeles topped the American Lung Association’s list of cities with the worst air quality. But air pollution levels vary depending on where you live. Students at Manual Arts High in South Los [...]
After seeing Will Oldham and Matt Sweeney become the illustrious Superwolf as part of the McCabe’s 50th Anniversary Show, I decided to dig out an interview long since swallowed up by the Internet. Below is a Q&A from a now defunct magazine followed up a profile done a year later (for another defunct magazine). The [...]