http://paulrallison.blogspot.com/2007/03/many-sides-of-blogging.html On March 28, 2007, I interviewed students in three of my New Journalism classes at East Side Community High School, NYC. First my 10th graders describe what, how, and why they blog, then my 8th grader, and finally my 11th and 12th graders. The high school students are blogging at http://youthvoices.net and the 8th graders are at http://personallearningspace.com.

http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=110 Download TTT48 04.11.07 Hard Questions for Teachers Who Teach BloggingAfter a few months of blogging with all of her classes at YouthVoices.net, Susan Ettenheim sent Paul Allison a few questions:

What do you do about the student who is on-line more (has that luxury) doing stronger work than the student who has less experience with being [...]

http://paulrallison.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-far-away.html When I first heard of the shootings in Virginia, I thought about Lee. How far away was her school and her students? I looked at her students markers on a CommunityWalks map that we had been working on together. As I was working, I zoomed from place to place, noticing -- as we often do -- how close we all are. Here's a Google Earth map that shows where the shootings took place, but it also has all the markers on it from our bloggers in the Personal Learning Space and Youth Voices. I don't know why distance matters to me on this one. I also feel close to the parents who sent their young people away to college, for this? And I'll be sending my sons away just like that in a few years.

http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=111 Download Creating Sweet Spots on the Web - TTT49 04.18.07How do local Writing Projects create a web presence? What changes when they do? What tools might we consider? Joomla? DrupalED? We discussed these issues with our guests Bill Fitzgerald, Paul Oh, Troy Hicks, Felicia George, Madeline Brownstone, Lee Baber and Paul Allison. Bill [...]

http://paulrallison.blogspot.com/2007/04/blogging-update.html Another in my series of videos where I interview students about their work as bloggers.

http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=112 Download Trailfire and Virginia Tech Shootings - TTT50 04.25.07Trailfire in the classroom
Madeline Brownstone, a teacher from the Baccalaureate School for Global Education, NYC, kicked off this episode by talking about how she has begun to use Trailfire in her classroom. Madeline has only begun to explore the possibilities of Trailfire. Her 7th graders have begun [...]