It is not Fridays we should fear, but Mondays – especially Mondays after a long weekend. But since tomorrow is a school day, here’s a cup of wake up and get out of bed links!
1) Jeff at Wicked Decent Learning has a whole host of links at his site to copyright friendly audio and video [...]
Last summer I was lucky enough to attend the ASNE Summer Journalism Fellowship and got to write for an editor again. It was great to be reminded of what my students go through when turning in work to me.
So, I have been looking for an opportunity to write on a deadline on a regular basis. [...]
Here’s a portion of the IQ Ranges from the IQ Comparison site. Notice High School teachers are actually pretty smart. Who knew?
Sometimes what we do is incredibly technical. I just spent the last two days discussing Amps, Watts, breakers and Luminance and it had nothing to do with class. I just bought four brand new lights for my mini studio. When we finally got them wired right and hung – we blew the breaker.
I never realized [...]
It is a somewhat feminine career that I have undertaken – journalism teacher. I learned this at my first scholastic journalism workshop. At break time, the men’s room was mainly empty and the line for the little girl’s potty was around the block. Those of us with a Y chromosome are in the minority as [...]
I actually found a Web blog Award that I like, the 2008 Edublog Awards. Normally, they just seem like a popularity contest and a waste of time. But I am for any award that recognizes good education blogs.
So, here’s my nominations and you should nominate too.
Best Individual Blog: The Scholastic Scribe
Best New Blog: dkzody’s Weblog
Best [...]
Right now I would have to say that journalism is failing in two of its primary roles – informing the public and acting as a watchdog over the government.
At church today, our pastor informed us that we should be as generous as we could during a special collection the Church was taking up for Hurricane [...]
My newspaper staff was drawing on the board the other day…
The photo is bad, but their sentiment was really nice.
