http://elgg.educationbridges.net/paulallison/weblog/919.html

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/7352.html


The semester is winding down. Students are focused on final projects in their core courses, and preparing for state examinations. Blogging is feels harder and harder to care about. Still these young people seem to have enough sense of personal commitment to YouthVoices.net and their personal blog to put forward some effort.

http://elgg.educationbridges.net/paulallison/weblog/1205.html

http://paulrallison.livejournal.com/7493.html


Run with me as from Upper-Manhattan into Riverdale in the Bronx, and listen as I "go on" about a few different curriculum queries that have been bouncing around in my head. What I think underlies all fo the examples that a mention here is the notion that writing and multimedia production should be taught as communication and not as a technical skill.