As teachers, we all have personal and/or professional learning networks. These are networks of support with people whom we know and connect with on personal and professional levels in order to develop ourselves and as teachers. Check out my personal PLN here. I'm pretty proud of my current PLN since I am such a newbie, … Continue reading Creating Personal and Professional Learning Networks (PLNs)

I've kind of informally traced the rise of virtual reality (VR) throughout the years*, and I love that it and augmented reality (AR) are becoming more and more popular because of the value they hold for so many fields, including English Language Arts. Just like we should incorporate more visuals into our classrooms -- for … Continue reading Virtual Reality with Google Cardboard

Sounds fancy, doesn't it? I picture two virtuosos playing opposite each other in a concert hall, but the term actually refers to creating a multimodal text in which "old and new literacy practices, including print texts and visual texts, may be fruitfully taught side by side" (Leander). This multimodal text may be any combination of … Continue reading Parallel Composing

Images and other media can be remixed and modified to do things that we use simple text for, such as conveying meaning or making an argument. Below is an image I made that I hope conveys an argument through a visual media. Upon Reflection: Essentially what I wanted to convey can be broken down into … Continue reading Multimodal Argumentation