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How to be a freelance writer can be achieved by first through preparation. You have to know what are the requirements for applying in jobs like this. You need to have the knowledge, skills, experience and…

I have had a number of colleagues suggest that I share my Ed tech 556 syllabus for an MA graduate program (which mainly enrolls in-service teachers) that focuses on how technology and learning are situated:…

Interested in using Google Earth and Google Maps with your students? Check out this site that my CSU colleagues and I created based on our work with pre-service teachers during the 2011-2012 academic year: https://sites.google.com/site/birdseyedetectives/home. With the assistance of a gift from Google, we were able to provide workshops for students and then hold a technology showcase at Sonoma State, San…

This last semester (Fall 2010) I took the class EDCT 559 at Sonoma State as an elective for my Master's degree in Reading and Language Arts. This class focused on defining Media Literacy based on three main views, the importance of integrating Media Literacy into the classroom and practical applications for the classroom. This spicynode was the visual outlining my final project which sought to integrate technology into the writing section of each Read180 workshop. My goal is to put…

The other day my principal called my classroom and asked me to send a few of my students (8th graders) down to her office. She said someone had created a fake Facebook page for one of our campus supervisors, and three of my students appeared to be involved. They had copied a picture of the victim from his own Facebook page, and then gave him a name that was a slight variation of his own. Then they filled the page with all kinds of hateful profanity.

These kids are so clueless about…

My students and I discussed throughout this past spring semester how there seems to be this misconception that learning to use (and using) new media should afford a frustration-free and anger-free experience. Somehow the newness of technology and its user-friendly characteristics are supposed to make the learning process easier. Yet, for me, a meaningful aspect of making a VoiceThread or a Prezi…

1. Where do I start with all this new media stuff?
2. Once I start, how do I keep up?

Where…