OK, not the Family Guy, but his daughter. I’m not a fan of the show, but I ran across a clip on hulu.com and had to find the whole episode. It is goofy, twisted and just plain dumb – but kind of fun. Worth a watch on a hot summer day. Only 84 days until [...]
I have a love/hate relationship with the end of the year. I love the freedom of nearly three months of time off. I hate having three months of time off after July 4th. I love finally getting my classroom/studio/office clean. I hate cleaning.
OK, you get it. If you are a media/journalism teacher, then you probably [...]
It is hard to teach kids who don’t always have a great literary background about idioms and cliche’s – Thanks to 10,000 Words for this link to Kill The Cliche‘ – a great site about the horrible state of newspaper headlines – filled to the brim with cliche’ phrases.
60 Minutes has a really great video about how the Millennial Generation is really different from Gen Y, Gen X and even the Boomers. The only thing they don’t really say is 1) how to get them to work 2) what they will do when the economy hits rock bottom and the jobs dry up.
All [...]
Today I ran across a couple of web sites about Miroslav Tichý, a photographer who lived in Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) during the Cold War. For kids today, the Cold War means nothing – but it was a brutal totalitarian government that was in league with the Soviet Union after World War II.
The amazing [...]
It really hit me today that my seniors – Class of ‘08 Rox! – are gone now.
Today was their last day, of course I will see many of them several times over the next week or so, but I won’t be working with them any more. In fact I told my ‘09 editor [...]
I love Kermit the News Reporter and Sesame Street too. Here’s a weird quiz about which newscasters have appeared on Sesame Street. Have Fun!
Haven’t done one of these for a while, but I just have some cool stuff to share:
1) Why Gen Y Is Going To Change The Web: I actually prefer the term Millennial Generation and Digital Natives to Gen Y. As a Gen Xer, I think of Gen Y stopping with kids who were [...]
Why? I just don’t get it. Yes, there is pressure to be first and to scoop the opposition, but that used to be balanced by the responsibility to be right. Today the Boston Herald admitted that they lied about allegations the Patriots taped sideline signals. If I lived in Boston and was a Patriots fan [...]
