Thoughts on Equal Access…

I’ve been thinking about what happens in our schools when we deny students access to information on the web. While it’s somewhat troublesome to use class definitions, the largely white middle class students in the district where I tutor can go home and use internet resources, whereas for students from low income families, the school [...]

Novels on MySpace

So, as tech-savvy as it is to maintain an educational Blog, there’s still one online phenomenon that I have yet to explore – social networking sites.  Setting up a facebook or Myspace account has been on my list of things to do for the last few years (maybe I should call it, “things I might do”).  I just [...]

Bright Ideas: part 1

The first session I attended at the Bright Ideas Conference this weekend, was  Using Art as an Assessment presented by Professor Anna J. Roseboro from GVSU.  While I’ve read about using art as an assessment in Jeff Whilhelm’s You Gotta Be the Book, Ihad never really thought any further on the subject – While it might seem [...]