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Paul Allison - 2013-05-21 10:27

I want to share my love affair with six-word stories with you today. I have shared some of the ways I use  six-word memoirs  or six-word stories in my classroom before but those ideas are only the tip ...

Deanna Mascle - 2013-05-15 09:11 - 0 comments

Learn to Change, Change to Learn.flv By Dan Polleys and Rebecca Wildman Increasingly, schools are equipping ...

Dan Polleys - 2013-05-02 08:58

My students and I love this photo by Joseph Morales (a retired teacher who has been working with us) of Tree Swallows on a box that students built with Rocking The Boat and installed in Soundview Park in the ...

Paul Allison - 2013-04-18 08:37 - 0 comments

(This is reposted from my blog ) This is for Slice of Life challenge over at Two Writing Teachers (where folks are writing about the little moments in their days). I was thinking about the ...

Kevin Hodgson - 2013-03-25 05:57 - 0 comments

This week we finally got to bring  The Walking Dead  into my online writing class and I can’t even begin to tell you how excited I am about that. Of course, as you know if you know anything about me ...

Deanna Mascle - 2013-03-16 06:37 - 0 comments

My students are creating posters featuring six-word memoirs and artwork inspired by their reading to promote class discussion and their writing. At my institution our Writing II class is based on using ...

Deanna Mascle - 2013-03-08 09:55 - 0 comments

(go to Voicethread ) This is part of a larger conversation I have been having with Anna Smith about digital writing and literacies (and which we are archiving at Jog the Web and the ...

Kevin Hodgson - 2013-02-13 06:49 - 0 comments

I am curious as a cat which I think has a great deal to with my career choices. Sure journalism is a lot about writing but it is also about questions and the search for truth (at least if done right, not the ...

Deanna Mascle - 2013-02-03 10:51 - 0 comments

2 My students love using Gamestar Mechanic to learn video game design. But they also expressed questions about features and abilities that do not exist in the site. So, I figured, why not ...

Kevin Hodgson - 2013-01-07 10:36 - 0 comments