Dusting off my keyboard

It has been a while.  By the looks of the dust and cobwebs around here, a very long while, since I have taken the time to get this blog rolling again.  I have been busy – I sent my youngest child off to college, co-authored a book on teaching online (more about that in a [...]

ttyl, y? bcuz pos

The young live, eat, and breathe this language by cell, IM, and email 24/7. It is their native language – we will not break them of it – we must accept that. Obviously not all conventions or presentation problems found in classroom writing are texting-based, but txt does creep in.

The Roast Beef of Education

I heard this story once about a woman who always cut a slice off of her roast beef before serving it to her family.  When an interviewer asked her why she did this, she replied, “Because that’s what my mom always did.”  So the interviewer found the woman’s mother and asked the mother the same [...]