We returned to school this week after missing 11 days due to Hurricane Ike. And we were immediately hit with the bad news. No, I didn’t want it sugar coated, so I was glad to get it straight.
Our auditorium is semi-flooded, so it will be closed indefinately. This means no photos of choir concerts, drama [...]
I will miss Paul Newman, who died today. His great performance in Absence of Malice really made that film come alive to me as a journalist. The world is smaller today without him.
Sometimes links come in a bunch and with their own built in theme. This week they did. Too many times people in journalism are crying that real journalism is dead. But I think it is not dead or even dying – it is going through changes. Painful metamorphasis, but in the end journalism may be [...]
I ran across this great collection of jokes about type, typesetting, fonts, etc. Many are funny, but some are just punny!
If you read my blog regularly, then you know I live in Houston, Texas and unless you live under a rock, you know we had a hurricane party this last week.
I just spent five days off-line. It was hard. We survived the storm with little damage. The roof has several spots where the shingles are [...]
I had such a Kindergarden Cop moment this week. If you remember the movie, Arnold “The Governator” is a cop acting as a Kindergarden teacher. He has a great day when his students actually respond to a new technique he tried.
This week it happened to me. My kids have really responded to my new concept [...]
I do want coffee – even at 10 pm.
1) Starbucks secretly gives away free coffee to teachers. Sounds too good to be true. But there’s the link to the “secret” Starbucks blog.
2) The Invisible Inkling has a really good selection of web tools for online journalists. Great selection – my favs are Wordle and Slide.
3) [...]
I just haven’t been able to keep up with posting since school started. It has just been a whirlwind and sucked the life right out of me.
But we did have a really great discussion in my Newspaper Production class the other day. We were covering the four levels of making an ethical news decision as [...]
This is a great video, with bad sound. But the premise of this TED talk is that kids can self organize to educate themselves. I am presently trying to test that premise in my advanced journalism classes this year. I’ve decided to do what a great number of really good educators before me have been [...]
1. Comment.net has an excellent post with NINE Essential CSS Skills that you just have to know – or in my case teach.
2. This is just a great idea. Buy a one time use camera. Tie it to an object, like a park bench with a note telling people to just take pictures. Go back [...]
