Dragon Booktalk Gets International Recognition!
Posted in Latest Site News on Feb 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Lots of exciting news to report!
First of all, a quick primer: the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) is a hundred year-old organization with over 50,000 international members. With various scholastic journals, online publications, and outreach programs, its goal is the improvement of English literature and language education.
I was informed today by Lori Bianchini, editor of the NCTE’s electronic newsletter INBOX, that our podcast site and Sara Cunningham’s C-J article were being mentioned in its Feb. 3 edition. The newsletter has 115,000 subscribers! The link is below:
http://www.ncte.org/library/NCTEFiles/Resources/Newsletter/archive/2-3-09.htm
In addition, Millie Davis @ the NCTE Inbox Blog also posted an entry highlighting our site in her Feb. 3 entry:
http://ncteinbox.blogspot.com/2009/02/bringing-school-learning-home.html
I can’t thank Ms. Bianchini and Ms. Davis enough for their time and consideration.
Speaking of time and consideration, I want to thank both Larry Colton (Counting Coup) and Michael D’Antonio (Hershey) for contacting me recently. They have visited the site and listened to the podcasts, and sent congratulations to the students for their literacy labors.
Let me give one more shout-out to Kristi Wright, an excellent new teacher at SOHS and one of my co-teachers from this past semester, who helped organize, assess, and manage the student podcasts.
The next round of podcast won’t be until at least May, so until then, click on a book title on the right, listen to some literature discussions, and top it off with a book commercial!
–Adam Watson, February 2009
