My Comments

The following are links to all of the comments that I have made on fellow classmates’ posts during the semester:
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The End is Near

Well, it’s the day after Thanksgiving, which means that the semester is almost over.  As the semester comes to a close, and ENG 310 comes to an end, it is now time to reflect on my blogging experience. 
First up for discussion is what I have learned about my topic.  I entered into this project with [...]

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A Lesson in Economics

I recently read the article ‘Playing the Market’ Gets New Meaning at Schools by Jennifer Buske in the Washington Post.  This article discussed a way of using computers in the classroom that concerns the simulation of a real-world situation, in this case the stock market.  This article talked about the Stock Market Game.  According to [...]

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Texting in the Classroom

Lots of people use their cell phones to send text messages.  (Personally, I’ve never done it, and I don’t really find it very appealing, but that’s me.)  Texting in the classroom, however, is usually outlawed.  Despite this fact, I recently read an article about classrooms that do just the opposite and require their students to use texting in [...]

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Wikis and Writing

I recently read a post on the blog Digital Writing, Digital Teaching by Troy Hicks that talked about his trip to the NWP/NCTE 2008 conference.  What caught my eye in this blog post was the mention of wikis, which I actually had to do a project about for my ED 205 class that I took over the summer.  [...]

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Video games in the classroom?

I recently read two articles on the New York Times website about how video games can be incorporated into the classroom.  The one that I will be focusing on is “The Future of Reading – Using Video Games as Bait to Hook Readers” by Motoko Rich.  In the article, Rich talks about many different ways that people [...]

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The Underground Railroad in Michigan Conference

On Friday, September 26, I attended The Underground Railroad in Michigan:  A Decade of Discoveries Conference at Grand Valley State University.  I attended Sessions A and C and and saw part of Keynote Speaker Karolyn Smardz Frost’s presentation, as well as that of Christopher Paul Curtis.
In the morning on Friday, I first attended Session A [...]

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Cheater, Cheater, Pumpkin Eater

Throughout the history of the school system, students have always found ways to cheat at their assigned tasks.  Taking a peak at their neighbor’s paper, hiding answers up a sleeve, writing answers on the desk, etc.  One thing that it has always been a little harder to cheat on, however, is writing.  Students can pull an essay off of the internet, but [...]

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Free Online Textbooks

I recently happened upon the article Don’t Buy That Textbook, Download It Free by Noam Cohen on the New York Times website.  While I realize that this is more of an issue that pertains to college students, I thought that this was something that could eventually have some impact on secondary education as well. 
It has often been my [...]

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The positives and the negatives of using computers in education

Whether or not laptops and desktop computers are being used effectively in the classroom is something that many people have been debating.  Some believe that the use of computers helps to get students more interested in things like writing.  Others see computers as something that can easily be misused by students.  The article Pencils, schmencils, I need a [...]

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