Techno-Rhetoric Cafe

Thursday’s New York Times ran an editorial on standardized testing that demands some attention. They are calling for stronger curriculums in high schools and more focused standardized testing to demonstrate accomplishment in these areas. Just last month, the NY Times ran another article exposing the coaching of students that some schools do before their tests. [...]

This post has been on my mind for quite a while, but I just have not gotten around to writing it. However, with the recent shut down of Al Upton’s minibloggers, I feel that it is time that I express a few opinions on the idea of student privacy, safety and online education. If you’ve [...]

Last spring, there was a buzz in the air about the potential for standardized tests being used in our state colleges as an assesment of our programs. Personally, I hate standardized tests–I took them countless times throughout my primary school days (it seems we were always lucky enough to have the military move us just [...]

It has been almost a year now since I made my first presentation on blogging in the classroom. As I prepared for this presentation, I had several of my own professors telling me what a wonderful idea this was, how “new” and “innovative” it was, and that I was “on to something.” Now, before I [...]

It’s been almost 48 hours since the disaster that was my second class yesterday and I still feel frustrated about all that happened. I realize that this could have been prevented if I was more aware of the complete rules to technology in a classroom, but let me whine anyway.
I assigned my students 4 [...]