As I creep towards my blog’s seconds anniversary, I have hit the silver anniversary post of Cool Links. Yay Me! I’m also getting closer to 400 posts and have passed the 50,000 visits marks. But that celebration is still a month and a half away.
So let the links begin!
1) RTNDF has a really good page [...]
It is amazing what we will do to feel needed and helpful. For the last two years, the media department has helped the dance department put on their Spring Show. This meant editing a lot of music. It started with the best of intentions. I wanted to help a former student of mine – the [...]
Thanks to Random Mumblings blog for sharing this Charlie Rose interview of Marc Andreessen (Ning) who has a great analogy of what the newspaper industry needs to do. I agree with him. It is similar to what my mother always said to me as a kid – it hurts more if you slowly rip the [...]
I am an on again, off again fan of the TV show 24. I usually don’t watch it on FOX television because it has always competed with a show I like better. So I wait patiently until the DVD sets come out and then I watch it marathon style, renting it on the Internet and [...]
I surveyed three of my classes this week with the question “What do you like about…” and “What do you had about…” and then fill in the ending with the Internet, Television, Radio and Print (newspapers, magazines).
The results were not what I expected. The students are grades 10-12 and range in age from 15-18. They [...]
When I wrote my last post, I wasn’t trying to start drama. I am not anti-reporter or even anti-newspaper. I fully believe that reporters have an important place in a thriving democracy, but we have to stop ignoring the importance of the Internet. The fastest, easiest, most interactive way to deliver the news and other [...]
There I’ve said it! I am officially a heretic. I teach journalism, but I don’t read a newspaper. And I doubt that most people reading this blog or others do either. I was thinking about this today. Do those of us over 30, wake up some days and think we still live in the 20th [...]
This is just a little shout out to Wicked Decent Learning podcast who love to give the numeracy love to prime numbered episodes. It has been a while and my box of coolness is running over. Time to dish out the cool links for media and journalism teaching.
1) To kick it off, I have a [...]
A lot of people are trying to figure out what is wrong with high schools today and why are they failing to educate so many students. Why do kids drop out or fail to pass the state assessments?
First is funding. Even before the economic meltdown, schools were underfunded. I know most taxpayers don’t think so, [...]
Since I’m bored of the Steelers dominating the Cardinals, I decided to post another edition of cool links.
1) This comes via the Free Tech for Teachers blog, Boolify – a neat visual tool for teaching Boolean logic. This really shows, not just tells how to do Boolean searches.
2) For the writing teachers out there Word [...]
