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This Really Frosts my Cupcake


This news story from CNN about a teacher in Indiana who was fired for using the book Freedom Writers to get her students excited about English really got me angry.  I found myself yelling at the moving picture of the school board president.  She said that the teacher, Connie, was sending “students a very poor [...]

Blogging in the Classroom


photo by yusunkwon, CC license An interesting article from Ars Technica brings up the idea of using microblogging as a part of classes. Though I havn’t tried it, Twitter seems to be a useless application. Why would I want to talk about what I am doing in 140 characters? And why would people care? Yet, [...]

Teaching Experience


I really have a new found respect for teachers.  I have been taught all my life and have not realized what is going on behind the scenes when teachers are instructing me.   For my Library and Information Literacy Instruction practicum, I recently taught a library class in which I discussed the finer points of searching [...]