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Plagairism confirmed. Now what?
Plagairism confirmed. Now what? A student in UF’s College of Journalism and Communications reently was fired for plagairizing stories she wrote as an intern at the Colorado Springs Gazette. The story not only received coverage in the area media but nationally. But now what? Discussion has been that the student could be expelled. The Journalism […]
Playing games – board games, Wii Active, on an iPhone
Playing games During the past month, I’ve played quite a few games. With Wii Active, I set up my own fitness routine and worked out with skateboarding, basketball and tennis. In a group discussion of iPhone/iTouch games, I downloaded a game we were discussing and was ready to play before that conversation had ended. I’ve […]
High tech has advantages. Low tech has advantages.
I’m back online after several weeks of very minimal online activity. I’ve been out of town — most often in locations that have had limited or no Internet. Even in some potentially connected locations, I decided not to check e-mail or post to my blog. At least a month with no television. So my time […]
Mobile news reading
How do I like reading “the newspaper” on my iPhone, I’ve been asked? Reading on a mobile device has many positives. The width of the sceen is like a newspaper column so the reading width is good. The “newspapers” I read provide headlines and the start of each story to aid in selecting which story […]
iPhone access to USA Today
Here’s USA Today headlines as I see them on my iPhone. Media Bistro reports that USA Today Publisher David Hunke regrets decision made (before he was publisher) to give iPhone ap for free. I’m one of the 1.6 million who downloaded. Digital USA Today scheduled for August.
Snow storm transportation
The order on the rope behind the buggy was youngest closest to the buggy and oldest at the end to make sure younger kids held onto the rope. My grandmother would drive the buggy to each student’s home. Julie Dodd from her iPhone
More challenging than bus duty
A non-instructional duty for most teachers is bus duty — supervising students as they wait for the buses to take them home. That can present challenges — preventing or breaking up fights, talking with a lonely student or helping a student get home who missed the bus. My grandmother taught in a one-room schoolhouse near […]
How the blackboard got its name
The original blackboard was just that — boards painted black. Writing could be done with chalk and wiped off or washed off. In education’s current enthusiasm for video prjectio units and PowerPoint, we need to remember that the blackboard approach to teaching can allow for more interaction with the class and more spontaneity for the […]
Greenbrier School in the Great Smoky Mountains
The large photo is the class of 1909. Quite the age range. I trust they dressed for the photo and didn’t regularly dress like that — for hiking to school and sitting in what would be a very warm building for some months of the year. The water fountain was a bucket with a gourd […]
On log vs. log on
This is one of the trails children hiked daily to reach Greenbeier School in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. No school buses in the 1900s so some students walked 13 miles every day. No state-mandated physical ed class would be needed to promote personal fitness.
Julie Dodd 