Implications I chose to make a video for this open-ended assignment about how I learn and what I think about what I've learned. I chose the video format because I like making videos but had never tried adding a voice-over. I figured out how to do this in iMovie, and then was able to interweave …
Mash-up are usually the blending of music from two or more sources. However a different mash-up was featured in a story by National Public Radio (NPR) where street signs in New York City were rewritten into Haiku poetry, Haiku Traffic Signs Bring Poetry To NYC Streets. This story illustrated how a mashup could be made of a very basic informational text with a strict poetic form. “Caution: Oncoming Traffic” was expanded into a poem of of 5 syllables/7 syllable/5 syllables of “8 million swimming/The traffic rolling like waves/Watch for undertow.” In the NPR story,
“Traffic warning street signs written as haiku are appearing on poles around the five boroughs, posted by the New York City Department of Transportation. The poems and accompanying artwork were created by artist John Morse.”
NYC’s Department of Transportation hoped the signs would catch new eyes in order to communicate important information. The…
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What The?
One of the cool things about having parents who were teachers, who are now retired, is that they're still interested in education (lifelong learners, I guess). They regularly send me things they think I might be interested in, and they're always right. I opened my email this morning and found this from my mom, who …
Spectacular
You never know what'll happen over a weekend. I was occupied like most other folks with a variety of things that kept me away from other things. One of those other things I was kept away from by some of the things that kept me away from them was one of the things that, at …
Bill of Rights
Kierstyn and Danielle, two students in my senior English class, made a video as a project for their Social Studies class about the Bill of Rights debate between the Federalists and anti-Federalists. They chose to stage the debate in the format of a Justin Bieber song. The result, which I find captivating for numerous reasons, …
Thirty-three and counting
Thirty-three of my students in grades 9, 10, and 11 now have WordPress blogs, all created on their new iPads. As part of a unit on Blogging, students have managed to make their ways through the labyrinth of technical requirements to create and become familiar with the world of blogs. If you're not familiar with …
Get ready…
My students got a blogging today. Not a flogging, but a blogging. A blogging unit. Kicking and screaming (I'm not sure if it'll be me or them), they will begin learning the nearly two-decade old craft of blogging and - I hope - will let me highlight, proffer, purvey, promote, feature, sling, serve up, whip …
Welcome and thanks
Welcome to my blog. I teach English at Cambridge High School in beautiful Cambridge, Idaho, population 368. I moved here in August 2012 from Boise, and love the small town environment. After my first year, we decided to stay so we bought a house and are really enjoyging the life and friends we've made here. …
Mr. McMichael 