Inquiry & Reflection for Better Learning
It’s been a while since a podcast. Today’s offering is a little bit about Moodle, a little bit more about hyperjournalism in my classroom, and a thank you to David Warlick for something that I’m not even sure he meant to do. Oh — and my daughter has a brief speaking part. Enjoy. […]
Read More Podcast: Moodle, Hyperjournalism, and Today, Tomorrow?Ask and ye shall receive: A reader from Longmont asked whether there’s an RSS feed for my blog. Frankly, I didn’t know. Now there is, thanks to the question from Bud Hunt. Thank you Bud. There’s a link at the bottom of the page now that says add this blog to your RSS […]
Read More The New Media ModelLast night, I wrote about how I am thinking about using YourHub in my class next year. Today’s Rocky Mountain News carries this editorial from the editor and publisher, John Temple: The rules are looser on YourHub.com, especially online. The gate is open. It’s your place. In the minds of many journalists, that […]
Read More WeirdI can’t stop thinking about this episode of Open Source. In it, the topic of hyperlocal journalism is discussed. They point to Wikipedia’s definition of hyperlocal: In journalism, local news refers to news coverage of events in a local context which would not normally be of interest to those of other localities, or […]
Read More Hyperlocal JournalismFor the next three months or so, I’ll be writing a monthly column on our community newspaper‘s education page. The focus of the column is on K-12 students and writing. I intend to write one piece on blogs. The first piece was on creative writing exercises that you can do in the grocery […]
Read More How Newspaper Columns Should Look — Because They CanOver the weekend, I read about a site that I think is an interesting tool for looking at the big news of the web world. Ten by Ten is worth a look if you’re interested in news and language and pictures. The site scans the web every hour, compiling one hundred pictures and […]
Read More A Handy News Site