Taylor the Teacher

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I wanted to tell Chris Judson that he is now my newest hero after reading his post “Why Bashing Ed?” but blogger wouldn’t let me comment because I don’t use blogger or open id. So I popped over to twitter to […]

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The one we can’t possibly let students see?
It goes to the Strong American Schools project. The horror.
Strong American Schools, a project of Rockefeller Philanthropy advisers, is a nonpartisan campaign supported by The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation promoting sound education policies for all Americans. SAS does not support […]

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District installed new Internet filter today because the other one was too much like we lived in a democracy. All blogs, including my own class blog and all student blogs on blogspot are blocked. I mean, we can’t have kids WRITING every day! What would the world come to?
Blue Skunk Blog wrote a fantastic letter […]

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Really I passed bitter a long time ago — but am up late feeling guilty & just now admitting it. Here’s the story:
I’m assigned to teach Broadcast Journalism this year, which is exciting to me, but new. My first background was in print journalism, and back in my J-school days there was rivalry […]

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I have read some excellent posts tonight about edtech. David Warlick wrote a rant expressing his frustration that teachers don’t want to learn technology. I don’t know what his background is, but he doesn’t sound like a teacher. I honestly don’t know where he lives that teachers are “treated with awe and respect.”
He made […]

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The current state of our broadcasting equipment.

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Message from the superintendent of our district today at faculty meeting: “our district is on the cutting edge of technology.” Yet, in this cutting edge school, I am teaching two sections of Broadcast Journalism with zero digital cameras, two analog cameras, ancient editing equipment (that’s in a pile on shelves in the media center), and […]

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