Three Down 2 days ago Read More
Of the four classes I am taking this semester (three one-hour classes and one three-hour class), I have finished the work in three. That means I have just one more class to finish, and I will be d...
NCTE Recap 8 days ago Read More
I have been recovering from not having a “true” weekend, and I have neglected posting my recap of Saturday and Sunday at NCTE.
Great sessions on Saturday! I went to Karl Fisch and Anne Smith’s ses...
Home from NCTE 11 days ago Read More
I’m back from NCTE, and I’m too tired to post about it tonight, but soon I will post my recap and talk about my sessions from Saturday and Sunday and the Folger meet-up Saturday night. Lots of peo...
NCTE 2008: Friday 13 days ago Read More
Today began with a general session keynoted by Marc Prensky. Carla Beard has a nice summary of the talk he gave.
After that, I went to a session on Teaching Shakespeare to the Class of 2020. Pres...
NCTE 2008: Thursday 14 days ago Read More
After breakfast and a quick chat with my husband and my mom, I went to the Alamo. The tour interested me a great deal, and if you go, it’s worth it to rent the mp3 player for the audio tour. The ...
I’m in San Antonio 15 days ago Read More
If you are at NCTE, and you want to meet up, contact me at dana dot huff at gmail dot com, and either give me your contact information, or I’ll give you mine.
I want to go see Twilight Friday night...
NCTE Bound 16 days ago Read More
Tomorrow evening I’ll be flying to San Antonio to the NCTE Annual Conference. I haven’t been to an NCTE conference since 1998, which took place in Nashville. I went then because Atlanta is within...
Overdue Update 19 days ago Read More
I knew at some point during the semester, I would be too overwhelmed to blog much, and that point came at the junction of creating the English department budget for next year and keeping up with gr...
Megan Golding is a Class Act! 24 days ago Read More
I hope I don’t embarrass Megan by announcing here that she was the recipient of the Class Act award. Class Act is given by 11Alive (WXIA), a local NBC affiliate, based on a nomination by a student...