Ken Tompkins at Richard Stockton College just down the road from here contacted Sarah and I about his use of weblogs. Looks very cool. I’ve added some of his links to the list. I’m intruigued by the annotations he includes on some sites…seems like it wouldn’t be that hard to do. He’s also done a lot with e-zines, which could be a cool application for journalism classes, collaborative fiction, for creative writing. One thing that seems easier to facilitate in Manilla is the creation of a website that goes into some depth on a topic (portfolio-like).

Very interesting to find more applications to play with. My English department better watch out…

School’s out on Tuesday. Starting to feel sad as I say goodbye to some great future adults. Just a kind of melancholy about the end of what has been my best year of teaching, without doubt. For the first time, I’m in no hurry to leave. I want to keep chatting with Katie before school every morning, picking Mike’s brain about music, and helping Leanna get through her not-as-traumatic-as-she-thinks-it-is life. This was a special, special bunch. I am going to miss them dearly.