Teaching Children to Comment on Blogs

Ever since my first experience with kids blogging back in the spring of 2005, I’ve struggled to help kids write good comments. I think the problem arises from the comment box itself. It looks like a chat window or text box on a phone. As a result, kids seem to gravitate to writing in SMS-speak, […]

Welcome to My New Domain!

I have finally taken the plunge and moved my blog to my own domain. If you have followed me from my old Blogger blog to this one, thank you.

In my last post on that blog, I explained how easy it was to move my blog to WordPress at my own domain. My domain host […]

Looking for Blogs Written by Grade 5 or 6 Students

One of my fifth grade classes will start blogging soon. As they learn about blogging, I want them to visit well-written student blogs so they can learn what a blog is and how to comment appropriately.

If you know of student blogs that would meet these requirements, I would appreciate you leaving me their […]

Good Bye Web Pages, Hello Web 2.0!

I’ve been caught in the typical blogger’s irony; we only have time to write when there is nothing to say. That clearly has NOT been the case for the past few months. My superintendent called for an IT Summit so we spent two very educational days looking at all things tech in our school. My […]

The Weight of Unread Posts

I just spent a few hours and now my Google Reader lists zero unread posts instead of 1000+. I will not claim I read all closely; it was an exercise in skimming, and in some, such as TechCrunch, blantant marking all as read.

I wonder why I feel so much lighter now that there are […]

In the Soggy Quiet Places

As I try to bring blogging back into my life, I realize that one reason I’ve been writing is less is because I’ve been thinking less, or rather, deep thinking less.

My frantic schedule at work doesn’t allow many bathroom breaks, much less thought breaks as I dash from teaching to tech support to meeting. […]