Melissa Wantz: Notes from West Egg

Teaching English and Journalism at a California High School

The birth of a new(s) organization starts tomorrow

August 24th, 2009 · No Comments

As of tomorrow, I am a journalism adviser. Officially. Not in my dreams. Not in my plans. Not just on paper. Not ideally. But really, practically, wonderfully. School starts tomorrow. Journalism 2.0 meets for the first time. As a former journalist, there is a part of me that can’t believe how excited I am about [...]

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A New Kind of Reading?

July 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Tomorrow’s New York Times will publish an article titled “Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?“ by Motoko Rich (posted online a day early– another in a long list of reasons why I love online news!). Apparently this is the first in a series of articles that the Times will publish in an attempt to [...]

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