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Archive for March 2008

Plugging Our Ears

Mar 30th, 2008 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Writing/Media/Genre

This morning, Doug Noon shared a post entitled “The Fiction of Intellectual Property.” The post and the comments are thoughtful, but ultimately frustrating. What follows isn’t a direct response (hence, I didn’t leave a comment), but just some thoughts that have been kicking around my head for a while related to that post [...]



Good Week for Online Updates

Mar 21st, 2008 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Asides

It seems like the last week or so has been filled with some great updates to some of my favorite online (or online-related) services. Admittedly, they’re not all directly related to education, but good news is good news.
Here are the highlights:

Wordpress is updating to version 2.5, and it looks pretty sweet! (I don’t [...]



Different Writing Spaces

Mar 4th, 2008 | By Eric Hoefler | Category: Education/Literacy

I added a post on this topic to the TeachEng.us blog. Here’s the teaser:
… if I were in the classroom right now, and had students with consistent Internet access, I think I’d ask them to keep a few different writing spaces: a private journal, a public journal, a blog “notebook” or two, and a [...]