Hypothesis is a free, open source annotation tool that can be used to build a peer review layer for the Internet. In your classroom, you could imagine individual students annotating and marking up a text or website as they read. Each student would mark up their copy of the text, and then possibly meet as a group…
Over the last couple of months, I’ve been rebuilding and tweaking my digital identity, this includes the blog you’re reading right now. In an earlier post, I discussed the trail of recent changes as I rebuilt this site. In this post, I wanted to detail some of the choices that I made and the rationale…
In presentations I often make the statement that “the Internet is the dominant text for our students.” For classroom teachers this often begs the question about exactly how we should do this. One of the best ways to start doing this is to examine online informational texts with varying perspectives and examine the argumentative techniques…
Every week in our Reading & Adolescent Literature class we provide students with a general question to respond to either from the readings or from class discussions. Students are to respond to these prompts with posts on their own blogs that they started up for class. The prompt for the past week dealt with how…