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- Who am I?
- Paul Allison has been been teaching ever since he graduated from Hunter College, CUNY in 1983. After a few years in the desert (Utah), and a couple of years at the High School of Art and Design, NYC, he had a wonderful dozen years at University Heights Secondary School, Bronx, NY, where he learned that doing school better didn’t have to be the same-old, with more effort. After that, Paul worked with English Language Learners at the International High School in Queens for three years. After 9/11, there was a lot of talk about doing meaningful work. At the same time, Paul was finding himself being seduced by new forms of literacy on the Internet. An opportunity to become a “studio teacher” of technology at East Side Community High School, NYC presented itself in the Summer of 2002, and Paul taught "New Journalism" at ESCHS for five years. In the Fall of 2007, Paul moved back the the Bronx to teach English in the 7th Grade at East Bronx Academy for the Future. Another community that Paul is a part of is the New York City Writing Project. He was a participant in the NYCWP’s Summer Invitational in 1985, and he has worked for the NYCWP in various ways ever since. Currently, with Felicia George, Paul is the NYC Technology Liaison for the National Writing Project.
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paulallison @voicethread If you were introducing VoiceThread to a middle school English teacher where would you point first (after the tutorials)?
paulallison @voicethread If you were introducing VoiceThread to a guidance counselor whose native language is Mandarin where would you point first?
paulallison @voicethread If you were introducing high school librarians to VoiceThread where would point them first?
paulallison @voicethread If you were… Continue
Posted on July 8, 2008 at 10:00am — 2 Comments
I'm not a nerd
Posted on July 3, 2008 at 12:11pm — 3 Comments
Why are we asking teachers to write hypertext fiction?
Here's a place to start in thinking about how hypertext stories are different than printed stories: Lies
Posted on July 2, 2008 at 9:50am — 1 Comment
What I was trying to say...
Let me try to tease out what I mean by that mess of words.
"Writing with Hypertextopia..." In this phrase I was trying to capture Julie and my sense that we want the experience of writing to be central, a… Continue
Posted on July 1, 2008 at 1:53pm — 1 Comment
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- At 1:24pm on May 5, 2009, Aileen Malave said…
- Hi Paul, I have a new email address. bronxboriqua2009@yahoo.com. Can you please email me the application needed to apply to the summer workshop at Lehman college if it's still available? I learned so much from that workshop and really enjoyed it. I can't wait to show you what I've done with my Family group and our ning website. Thanks
- At 5:00am on April 2, 2009, Diana Friedline said…
- Dear Paul,
Congratulations on Hunter College! I am also an Alum in Fine Art and Communications. But I am writing about your interview with Suzie Boss and the Project-Based Learning Book. I was in a book study group through ISTE that looked at this book, and I have loved it, and recommended it to others including the CTE Digital Media Consortium--Jonathon Molofsky at Brooklyn Tech--as the best book I have found for teachers who want to introduce PBL and digital media into their classes. It is in fact the main reference I am using this term for my UFT mini-grant to create a Digital Vocabulary Word Wall Webpage with 4 other colleagues at Graphics (3 who are also in Debi Freeman's Thursday class). It is an exciting project. Thank you ISTE, and thanks, also, NYCWP.
- At 2:07pm on July 15, 2008,
Felicia said… - It looks like your last blog post (on this site at least) was July 9. Leading the group gives you no time to create for yourself.
I love your photography. I wonder how many "reformed" artists are connecting with technology for teaching? In our project along there are at least three.
- At 11:23pm on June 25, 2008,
Gina Moss said… - 4 days of workshops at ISA institutes in Stamford then off to Australia for a couple of weeks. I don't need to ask what you're doing...
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