Category Archives: Writing

Finding Venues for Authentic Research: The Family History Paper

I’ve been unfortunately quiet of late and have decided that rather than attempt (unsuccessfully) to complete the variety of half-baked posts that sit in my “Drafts” folder, I’d find other ways to get new material up here. With this post, I … Continue reading

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Omnipresent and Unexpected Reminders: Google Tasks and today’s New York Times

When I returned from vacation a few weeks ago and once again immersed myself in my Google-laden existence (which extends to virtually everything except my iPhone), I realized that they had moved the Tasks functionality from Calendars into GMail. I … Continue reading

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ISTE MixedInk Session: And the topic is…

Well, the day is finally upon us. Dave Stern and I will be presenting on using MixedInk in the classroom at a Bring Your Own Laptop session at 1:30 Mountain Time today. After the Google Form poll that I conducted … Continue reading

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Have I become one of those online sources?

On the few occasions (at least recently, given my bad case of end-of-the-semester-itis and the recent home renovation work I’ve been doing) that I’ve checked my WordPress dashboard stats, etc., I’ve found it interesting to look at the search terms … Continue reading

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Calling all Social Studies teachers!

Perhaps this title (in its deliberate provocativeness) will persuade people to click the link to this post when clicked in their Twitter feeds. Or perhaps it will be off-putting. I guess I’ll check the stats tomorrow and find out. Nevertheless, … Continue reading

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“And now for something slightly lower-tech…”

Before the winter break I assigned my ninth grade students to write an argumentative position paper on one of three topics — an assignment described in more depth in this post. In the course of reading these papers over break, … Continue reading

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