Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
It’s funny. ((Or kind of sad.)) I’ve been working with some folks to write about the centennial of English Journal, which is this year. One hundred years of writing about teaching and learning language arts. We’ve been focusing on the way that technology has been addressed in past issues of EJ, looking back at articles […]
Read More Still Nothing New Under the Sun. We Pretend Otherwise.“For me the classroom is a place of paradox, grace, and vulnerability. My experiences in the classroom lead me to more fully live into the person I imagine I am becoming. Teaching and learning along with students who are discovering who they are have given me the opportunity to consider how my vulnerabilities affect who […]
Read More Quite RightUPDATE (5/21/08): It seems that this video, certainly a controversial one, has been pulled from publication. than I did on the subject. If you haven’t already, you should read it, and dig deep into his comments. If you know why the video’s disappearing around the ‘net, I’d love to know what you know. Thanks to […]
Read More Learning to Change. Changing to LearnIt was about a year ago that I wrote a piece for English Journal on teaching “blogging” vs. “writing with blogs” that was pretty much a re-hash of some blog posts that I thought were saying something. The trouble is, I wasn’t sure what they were saying. I’ve been fumbling at this one for a […]
Read More Thinking ’bout LinkingThis month’s English Journal is a themed issue on New Literacies. I’m pleased that a hyperlinked version of our column, entitled "Linkin’ (B)Logs: A New Literacy of Hyperlinks" is available for free via the EJ website. Regular readers of the blog will have seen much of the content before, as some of it originally […]
Read More Hyperlinked Print. Sort of.I’m pleased to report that one of our English Journal pieces is available for non-subscribers right now as it’s been featured in the NCTE Inbox. Here’s the info (along with a PDF link): The English Journal article "Research and Authority in an Online World: Who Knows? Who Decides?" (G) is a must-read […]
Read More Free Closed ContentI’m pleased to tell you that Louann Reid, the editor of English Journal, my teacher and my friend is now blogging. Here’s her first post, on the class that’s brought her into the blogosphere. I think you’ll be interested to learn with and from her class: As a new semester and a new […]
Read More Please Welcome . . .In one of my roles as the co-editor of the New Voices column for English Journal, I regularly have space in a print publication to discuss how particular issues or topics in language arts instruction at the secondary level affect or are affected by early career teachers. There are several upcoming calls that […]
Read More Publishing OpportunitiesSeptember’s English Journal is all about poetry. What’s great is that the EJ website is showcasing, for a limited time, the "10 Watershed Articles" on poetry from EJ. It’s a collection of articles that span EJ‘s lifetime, all about teaching poetry, as named by two of September’s contributing authors. If you’re into […]
Read More EJ’s Watershed Poetry Articles