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What Hath We Wrought?

This morning’s eponymous keynote by Danah Boyd was, in a word, bracing. Like a cold bucket of water, Boyd’s thesis – our current media literacy efforts may very well backfire in today’s polarized environments – dampened the mood after yesterday’s uplifting speech by the president of Paul Quinn College. But Boyd’s words were no less […]

Expeditionary Learning Conference

At the beginning of this month I also went to the El conference in Baltimore. It was such a wonderful experience, it would be impossible to share it all. I went to the Humanities Slice of an Expedition, which was incredibly meaningful. I also wanted to share a website that I learned about. EL has […]

Carolyn’s post

Carolyn Nichols asked me to post this link for her.  She attended a session with Barbara Greenstone about technical writing and vocabulary.  You check check it out here. http://mhsliteracy.blogs.rsu1.org/files/2011/10/vocab.pdf