Here are 15 free ed-tech resources worth exploring: Empressr – Empressr is a free, online presentation tool. It can be used to upload photos, audio, and video. Uploaded information can be shared publicly or with a select group of people. Web-Chops – This unique web app makes it easy for teachers to share portions of [...]

I love technology. I use three computer languages to write in, I develop web sites, I train others to use technology in their writing workshops and I at times turn my back on the technology I love. I was born in 1951. I am of an era that use to write letters. We would take [...]

Writing teachers would agree that the most difficult population to inspire to write can be the boys that sit in front of you. I believe, in part, that is because so many of them prefer first to work in a non linguistic mode and secondly they enjoy writing and thinking about “boy” topics: hunting, rough [...]