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Check out this great How to Write a Resume page that Sara at Mahalo put together. It’s really thorough and I think will be a great resource for teachers. I wish I’d had it when I was teaching 101 and writing across the curriculum. She’s going to be working on a How To Write a [...]

The full title of this old paper of mine is God, John[ny], and The Wandering Jew Are Americans: Manifestations of Biblical Legends/Myths of Immortality Within Late 20th Century Popular Culture. You can find it here in html format, and here as a PDF. It is copyright to myself, but I freely grant anyone the privilege [...]

Trevor has a cool post up discussing the possibilities of Games as Literature and a class he is framing around this concept. Very cool stuff. Hey, Trevor. We should take this class together. It’ll be good research for the class you’re teaching and we’ll be able to relive our MA days virtually.

Well, title to this post, because I’ve been super duper busy. That has not changed, but I’m still waiting for the coffee to take effect this morning, so I thought I’d jump start my synapses by getting a little blogging time in with STW.
As you may recall, I have a new job. I’m loving it. [...]

Well, that was short lived. For some reason, I’m locked out of the blog I set up over at edublogs. It keeps giving me an “incorrect username” error and then “incorrect password” error, and no matter what I plug in, it’s not sending me my password. Seems to have happened with their recent update. Grr…
Update: [...]

The Librivox project, mentioned below started me thinking on different ways to use podcasts in an educational setting, beyond the expected use as an “audio lecture.” I have presented several papers at conferences that I haven’t ever posted online, as I’m concerned (based on some experience with the phenomenon) that students who are looking for [...]

Phil Windley talks about Howtoons, which Doc linked to over a week ago, but I lost the link in the shuffle:

One of the fun things I discovered at OSCON was Howtoons, a collection of cartoons that teach kids how to do things. I’ll definitely be showing it to my kids.

I’ve been thinking about using Comic [...]

Pedagogue blog is going well, although there are a few bumps along the way due to Edublogs being built upon the still-in-alpha WordPress MU. Nevertheless, it’s interesting to see how my posting over there is already garnering replies from within the growing Edublog community.

I don’t normally talk about my job on this blog, but I’ve recently changed jobs from Lab Supervisor / Coordinator to Instructional Technologist. I’m excited about this transition as the new position is more involved with the education side of things with more room for innovation. Should be an exciting school year ahead.
The only downside [...]

I just launched Pedagogue blog, over at Edublogs, which looks to be a great free resource for educators interested in blogging. Here’s the entirety of my first post: “…I’ve decided to name this space, “Pedagogue blog.” Hopefully, I will be able to avoid being accused of pedantry.”

Looks like there are some education-geared blog hosts popping up:

So the good news is that there finally seems to be some options for teachers wanting to implement Weblogs in thier classrooms in ways that are safe and effective.

Heh. “Safe and effective.” Reminds me of the cautionary instructions we used to receive at ISU about [...]

D’Arcy updated this list of educational podcasts over at iPodder.org : Podcasts > Categories > Educational. I need to go through and listen to some of these.

Here’s the other side of the coin:

Following on from how NOT to use blogs in education this post attempts to summarise this paper and add a few extra angles onto how you can use blogs effectively in education and invites your additional hints, tips, criticisms & wotnot.

Note to self: Read this later when you have [...]

Jason waxes poetic in a recent entry about what the blog-life is like: Walden 3 (or “Utopia as business model”). This is definitely the ideal that we’re all shooting for and would like to see happen, but it’s not the reality yet. There is a buzz in the Weblogs, Inc. camp, however, and we’re all [...]

This looks interesting, although I don’t know if I agree with all the points here. The link covers “two posts offering quick summaries of how I think you should & shouldn’t try to use blogs in education.”
Keywords in that statement: “I think.” It’s a personal perspective.
Some of the points are very valid, although [...]

This post, Pito’s Blog: RSS in the Academic/Research/Scientific community, looks like it could be a rather useful resource to keep on file:

I recently wondered out loud (on a couple of mailing lists) how much action there is with RSS and Blogging within the Academic/Research/Scientific community.
The reason for that question was that I was considering [...]

Found this via a comment at TUAW: Tools to Enhance Teaching and Learning in a Digital World. Very cool resource.

This is a good discussion with Ilan Stavans, “the renowned critic of Latino and Latin American literature and culture, and the author of the controversial dictionary, Spanglish.” ThoughtCast looks like it will actually be a podcast to which I will listen regularly.

Check out this entry for a cool discussion of a Wikipedia oriented lesson plan for kids:

Andy Carvin comes up with lesson plan that gets the most out of the unverifiableness of Wikipedia. Bottom line, use it to teach the type of information literacy skills we should be applying to much of what we read these [...]

This is dumb and this is smart.