Comments on: No love from the OWH http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:50:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: brian http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-205 brian Tue, 01 Feb 2005 03:54:46 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-205 sorry about that, I should have passed the announcement on to you all as well... I heard about it but just told a few friends that blogged, didnt think about unodemocrats.com and all the political blog-fed sites out there... and looks like <a href="http://nebwatch.org" rel="Nebraska Watch">Nebraska Watch</a> is a new starting up blog. I actually caught the link from them back to here again. =) sorry about that, I should have passed the announcement on to you all as well… I heard about it but just told a few friends that blogged, didnt think about unodemocrats.com and all the political blog-fed sites out there… and looks like Nebraska Watch is a new starting up blog. I actually caught the link from them back to here again. =)

]]> By: Republican http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-207 Republican Tue, 01 Feb 2005 04:44:38 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-207 Yes, but if you were to use <a href='http://www.google.com'>Google</a> like most other people, then Matt Payne is on the 2nd page of results, Kent Tegels can also be found through the meetup.com link on page 3, many can be found in first dozen - including two more from the article...i stopped looking for the uno democrats 20 pages into the results... Yes, but if you were to use Google like most other people, then Matt Payne is on the 2nd page of results, Kent Tegels can also be found through the meetup.com link on page 3, many can be found in first dozen - including two more from the article…i stopped looking for the uno democrats 20 pages into the results…

]]> By: Julia Rand http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-3938 Julia Rand Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:56:32 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-3938 Nebraska Watch is gone. Mail to webmaster only. Nebraska Watch is gone. Mail to webmaster only.

]]> By: Cathie English http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-45762 Cathie English Fri, 06 Apr 2007 05:13:35 +0000 http://www.unodemocrats.com/blog/2005/01/31/no-love-from-the-owh/#comment-45762 This is an old posting, but I have just ignored it for the past two years, mostly because I have very little free time to bother about such trivial matters. I highly doubt anyone will read this message at this point!! When the <i> Omaha World-Herald </i> interviewed me, they were interested in how teachers may be using blogs in the classroom. <b>Ironically</b>, the <i>Omaha World Herald</i> <b>did not</b> provide a link to my classroom blog but rather a link to a blog I created for a "Writing About Nature" course at UN-L with none other than John Janovy (in case you didn't know--Mr. Janovy, a native of Oklahoma and teacher extraordinaire at UN-L, is quite the writer and author of several exemplary non-fiction books on nature, botany, biology, e.g. <i>Keith County Journal</i>and <i>Dunwoody Pond</i>). I used a "blog" space from the National Writing Project to create a "web site" for my final project for this class hence the reason I did not use the "traditional" blog concept. I find your narrow view of blogs rather amusing. Since I am the author of several different blogs, (none of which fit your narrow concept of a blog) a full-time secondary teacher, a part-time Ph.D. student in rhetoric and composition at UN-L, and a teacher consultant for the Nebraska Writing Project and National Writing Project, I find it rather difficult to keep up a daily "blab" about politics or architecture. (Isn't that what David Kadavy is? Who knows and who cares?) Personally, I believe you are all just a little jealous that they didn't contact you (and wasn't it free advertising that you really wanted?) I know perfectly well what a "blog" is and what the standard fair is--and it irritates me that my blog has been criticized by folks who obviously didn't read the "About" on the blog to understand its purpose or audience (and I was initially irritated that the <i>Omaha World Herald</i> didn't actually link to my classroom blog--a place where my students interacted about literature). In September 2007, you can read my article about student online discussions (from 2005)in NCTE's <i>English Journal</i>. I have moved on to other discussion boards and mediums for my students to interact, i.e. Tapped In, Google docs, Breeze, etc. but hey, I don't know anything about blogging or technology! With sincere regards, Cathie English P.S. As a life-long Democrat, I'm incredibly disappointed in the bashing I have taken by young people who haven't done all their homework about my sites (or linked to other work I've done). This is an old posting, but I have just ignored it for the past two years, mostly because I have very little free time to bother about such trivial matters. I highly doubt anyone will read this message at this point!! When the Omaha World-Herald interviewed me, they were interested in how teachers may be using blogs in the classroom. Ironically, the Omaha World Herald did not provide a link to my classroom blog but rather a link to a blog I created for a “Writing About Nature” course at UN-L with none other than John Janovy (in case you didn’t know–Mr. Janovy, a native of Oklahoma and teacher extraordinaire at UN-L, is quite the writer and author of several exemplary non-fiction books on nature, botany, biology, e.g. Keith County Journaland Dunwoody Pond).

I used a “blog” space from the National Writing Project to create a “web site” for my final project for this class hence the reason I did not use the “traditional” blog concept. I find your narrow view of blogs rather amusing. Since I am the author of several different blogs, (none of which fit your narrow concept of a blog) a full-time secondary teacher, a part-time Ph.D. student in rhetoric and composition at UN-L, and a teacher consultant for the Nebraska Writing Project and National Writing Project, I find it rather difficult to keep up a daily “blab” about politics or architecture. (Isn’t that what David Kadavy is? Who knows and who cares?) Personally, I believe you are all just a little jealous that they didn’t contact you (and wasn’t it free advertising that you really wanted?)

I know perfectly well what a “blog” is and what the standard fair is–and it irritates me that my blog has been criticized by folks who obviously didn’t read the “About” on the blog to understand its purpose or audience (and I was initially irritated that the Omaha World Herald didn’t actually link to my classroom blog–a place where my students interacted about literature).

In September 2007, you can read my article about student online discussions (from 2005)in NCTE’s English Journal. I have moved on to other discussion boards and mediums for my students to interact, i.e. Tapped In, Google docs, Breeze, etc. but hey, I don’t know anything about blogging or technology!

With sincere regards,
Cathie English

P.S. As a life-long Democrat, I’m incredibly disappointed in the bashing I have taken by young people who haven’t done all their homework about my sites (or linked to other work I’ve done).

]]>