Grammatista

    Over the past five months or so that I have been learning about censorship and Myspace in schools I have learned many important lessons. The first and most apparent lesson is that technology is a insanely great tool and to not use it because you lack the necessary training isn’t a good enough answer [...]

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I attended the Pigeon Creek Shakespeare Company’s presentation of Macbeth. I think the single most important thing that I took away from that presentation is how the play had been adapted to suit its audience. By suit its audience I don’t mean that the words were changed into non-standard English or the lines were said [...]

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The article that I read came out of the Northwest Arkansas News Source and it was called “School bullies move online; rules tricky to write, enforce.” As one could guess from the title it is another testament to how social networking sites like Myspace and Facebook are going to wreck the world. Over the past [...]

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“Virginia Schools Teach ‘Net Safety Lessons” is the article that I read for this post. This article contains many disturbing statistics, in regards to pedophiles online, however it carries an overall positive message of the internet. I think the last line of the article serves as a great summation of the entire article as well [...]

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Over the past seven weeks all kinds of articles have been filing into my Google Reader account but the articles that come in more than any others are articles that use scare tactics to push parents and school districts away from computer (technology) use. I can’t begin to count how many articles I’ve read that [...]

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This article details students use of MySpace which caused them to be suspended from athletics. The tag line for this article is “Blood, Chains, leather and a 17 year-old girls” (Newell). I’ll admit it sounds pretty promiscuous but do coaches and teachers have the right to suspend or censor their students use of their personal [...]

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Over the past seven weeks all kinds of articles have been filing into my Google Reader account but the articles that come in more than any others are articles that use scare tactics to push parents and school districts away from computer (technology) use. I can’t begin to count how many articles I’ve read that [...]

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This article is about a few kids in an inner-city middle school in Chicago that were suspended for staging fights that were intended to be broadcast on YouTube. The article starts out by outlining the particulars of the incident.
“The 8th graders were using the camera phone to watch video of a fake fight they staged [...]

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1. Laura – Religious Coach
2. Travis – Teacher Sick Day
3. Leanne – Voucher Program
4. Mark – Prison Literacy
5. Brad – Killer “F”
6. Laura – D.C. Catholic School
7. Brad – Dad’s Homework
8. Travis – Tune In
9. Molly – Overseas Reading
10. Desi – Uniforms

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This article was shocking and quite disturbing for me to read. I find myself in a conundrum because I want to promote social networking sites for educational uses, but it seems that like most things, the few are going to wreck it for the many. The article talks about a group of teachers, none are [...]

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