Melissa Wantz: Notes from West Egg

I’ve been given the opportunity to present what we do with web 2.0 technology in journalism class at a conference at MIT titled Media Literacy and 21st Century Skills.
I’ll be leaving a week from Friday for Boston and have been asked to boil down what we do at our school news site to a one-minute [...]

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Working at a technology-friendly high school for the past year has allowed me to embrace the wonders of many free web-based tools and use them in my work.
Starting with the basic Gmail service has led to an exploration of the Google suite of tools, of which I currently use Google Reader (to keep track of [...]

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I checked out for 11 months. I thought I could blog and start teaching at a new school, but I couldn’t manage it. I needed to save my creative energy to use in the classroom, and there never seemed to be enough time for reflection. I only wanted to read, learn, experiment, plan and do [...]

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Well, that may be going too far, but he’s certainly someone whose premise I hope and pray is right! According to his excellent book A Whole New Mind, the U.S. economy is transitioning from the Age of Information to what he calls the Conceptual Age, an era that will be kind to creators and empathizers. [...]

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