Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

I’m asked all the time how I can stay current on all the latest technology that my students are involved with. The answer, as I shall explain, is simple and takes only three steps (maybe four).
It’s true confession time. I learned about face-book from a soccer player. He couldn’t get off the site long enough [...]

I’ve wrestled with whether to post this now and add an additional post once the class has finished with the unit, or to wait and do all of this together. I decided to go with the first option for two reasons. First, I can lay out the pedagogical idea I had that led to using [...]

The first year I taught, I initiated a concept that I called “Virtual Office Hours.” The concept was relatively simple. I provided my students with information for each of my online messengers, added each of them as friends, and set up regular hours. I kept about 3 hours a day for the first semester and [...]

I was reading Will Richardson (of Webblogg-ed)’s post supporting Wikipedia in the classroom when one of my colleagues, a new teacher, asked me about how I used Wikipedia in my research. So, since I’ve vowed to focus as many of my post here on the hows and whys of technology in the classroom, I thought [...]

I don’t pay much attention to the statistics on my blog except to note what searches my blog pops up under (and then only because these make good blog entries). But I’m going to direct this blog specifically at the search results on my blog at the moment. Apparently the time has come when those [...]