Melissa Wantz: Notes from West Egg

Teaching English and Journalism at a California High School

Entries from July 2008

Sneaky, sophisticated teenagers

July 18th, 2008 · No Comments

My daughter is 18 and getting ready to leave home to go to college in another state. Like most teenagers she is very comfortable with online social networks, and she spends a lot of time on Facebook as she waits for the long summer days to pass. I once dismissed MySpace and the like as [...]

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Laying the infrastructure for a new, improved year

July 17th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Over the past few months I’ve been browsing blogs, clicking on links and gathering information about how I want to incorporate technology into my teaching this year. It’s been a fascinating survey, and I particularly enjoy the enthusiasm and sincerity with which my teaching colleagues “out there” and the technology experts write about the newest [...]

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Who Am I? Who are you?

July 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Who am I to assert my voice into the blogosphere? That’s the first question that comes to mind as I try to set the scene, try to answer the who-what-why-when-where questions that will help to shape a context by which others can fully understand me. I have not written for an audience in 10 years, and [...]

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