http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=73 I'm back on the Twitter bandwagon, thanks to Henry. (If you're on twitter, look me up: NCavillones.)

I've been trying out some twitter-centered tools. One was suggested by Paul Allison. TweetScan is a search engine for topic-specific tweets. Right now, I'm checking out tweets that contain the word "homeschool," since ...

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=72 It's never too early to mark your calendars for the New York City Writing Project's 10th Annual Teacher-to-Teacher Conference. This year, the conference will be held on Saturday, March 29th at Lehman College in the Bronx. The scheduled keynote speaker is Linda Christensen, author of Reading, Writing and Rising Up: ...

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=71 Sounds neat. I'll try to make to it, if I'm feeling up to it! (And yes, you saw this same post on Ms. Frizzle's blog).


EduCamp NYC is a gathering born from the desire by teachers, researchers, and technology specialists in K-12 education to share and learn in an open ...

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=70 Thanks to Jeff for this link!

Google For Educators

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=69 Eric recently mentioned on his blog that he is using the new Flock release. I've downloaded it to try it out, since it comes with many new features. I used it awhile back but found myself annoyed with it, so I went back to Firefox. 

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=68 I'm up early today to meet the UFT teacher center staffter at my school, to talk about how I'll use the SmartBoard in my class today. I went to the Apple Store yesterday to buy the peripheral I need to connect my MacBook to the school's projector. I'm looking forward ...

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=67 It's not too late to join Tech Thursdays! Here's a flyer: Tech Thursdays

The next meeting is November 8th. If you are interested, please shoot me an e-mail, or e-mail the folks noted at the bottom of the flyer. Hope to see you there!

http://www.nycwpinquiry.com/?p=66 Olmstead/Wasserman 212 is the class blog of a colleague I met at NCTE last year, in Nashville. His sophomores are posting on current events, and Jeff has put out a call for readers, so that his students will see that their audience goes beyond just each other.

[cross-posted at Se ...