To Fark or Not to Fark

    So I often ask my journalism students to read the newspaper in class.  I like newspapers better than books about newspapers, and, frankly, I think the students that I work with could stand to read as much as possible as often as possible.  Okay — all students could stand to do that.  All […]

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Experiments in Podcasting

    It took all of five minutes to find several places online that offer podcasting tutorials or resources for newbies like me.  That’s good news — the only problem now is this:  who do I trust?    Found a site by Gary S. Stager that looks pretty interesting.  Chock full of podcasting resources.  My […]

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Why Podcasting?

    If you accept that blogging does have lots of potentials in the classroom, it doesn’t take very much to get you to see that podcasting has the same, if not more, potential for students.  When I think about posdcasting, I am thinking about the studnet production of short regular podcasts.  From a pedological […]

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Why blogging?

    So.      Now that I’m here in this space, I think it makes sense to declare, both for you and for me, just why I think these new technologies belong in the high school English/language arts classroom.  This post will focus on blogging — the next on podcasting.  I am squeezing these […]

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