(NOTE: This piece will be part of an Ed Tech Blog Carnival at The Whiteboard Blog) (Note: this blog post and a few more this week is part of a series around mentor texts and digital composition. The blog posts are all being collected over at Mentor Texts in the Digital Writing Workshop) Yesterday, I […]
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One Student’s Vision of A Video Game
We’ve been working our way into video gaming as a design lesson, slowly, and already, I can tell which students are getting hooked by the possibilities. Yesterday, one boy took me aside at the end of class. He’s one of those who is excited by the possibility that he is doing game design in school, […]
Book Review: The Bridge to Neverland
For years now, I have been reading aloud the Peter and the Starcatchers series with my sons. As the older son grew out of it, the next one would find his place next to me on the couch to listen, and now, it is on to the third son. (Of course, the older boys hover […]
Book Review: Wonderstruck
Some writers just leave me gasping for breath. I can’t put the book down and feel as if life is intruding on an intimate space that the writer, the characters and I inhabit. I was thinking of this as I finished up Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick (whose The Invention of Hugo Cabret remains a […]
(Graphic) Book Review: Nursery Rhyme Comics
Honestly, I wasn’t sure what I would think of this collection of traditional nursery rhymes re-imagined by 50 graphic novelists. But I trust the First Second Books to do interesting things, and so, I sat down with my youngest son to give Nursery Rhyme Comics a look. Well, it certainly is interesting and slightly off-kilter […]
The BS Connection: Boole vs. Boolean
I am reading The Information by James Gleick (it’s good), which maps out the history of ideas around information flow, starting with ancient writing. I came to a section last night that stopped me in my tracks, because it was all about George Boole. He revolutionized the philosophy of logic, and his Boolean Logic ideas […]
Success, Struggles with Digital Storytelling
The post I would like to share today is about how smoothly everything went with our digital storytelling project (see my first and second posts about the project). I’d like to say how wonderfully productive the day was, and how prepared I was for anything that might happen. I can’t do that. There were good […]
Scenes from the Digital Storytelling Project
Yesterday, we launched right into using iMovie for digital storytelling around narrative writing. I gave another brief overview of iMovie, which followed some visual tutorials last week, and then I turned them loose on the laptops for the rest of the period. For the most part, it was successful, with me jumping around the room, […]
Slice of Life: Slowing Down Time
We were settling into a nighttime routine, my son and I, slowing down the day before sleep. “What words did you learn at school today?” “AT!” he shouts, with some frustration. He’s only six. “At?” “We already knew it. It was already in our circle. Next to ‘the,’ and ‘to,’ and ‘and.’ You know … […]
Inside My Poetic Mind: A Reflection on Writing
Yesterday, I shared my digital poem entitled Lost Piano (Standing on the Shoulders of the Ocean) and today, I wanted to take a step back as a writer and mull over what I was trying to do with the poem, where the inspiration came from and why I scribbled out so many lines. I am […]