{"id":60,"date":"2008-11-26T06:27:27","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T05:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=60"},"modified":"2010-04-08T12:12:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:12:08","slug":"thanksgiving-from-me-if-not-from-the-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving &#8211; from me, if not from the turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/turkey.jpg\" alt=\"Turkey at Lackland High\" align=\"center\" hspace=\"5\" \/><br \/>\nI didn&#8217;t ask them to bring their Thanksgiving Dinner forward a week, though it was flattering to be accorded that honour, even if, as a vegetarian, I was loath to eat the turkey or the pork on offer. The photo shows a victim (it&#8217;s not the bird that gives thanks, we assume) with Suzanne Dreyer and me in the library of Stacey High School at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lacklandisd.net\/\">Lackland<\/a> Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas. Suzanne is Instructional Technologist at Lackland, which involves supporting technology for learning &#8216;K-12&#8217; (that is, from Kindergarten to the end of high school) &#8211; and being a kind of &#8216;super-teacher&#8217; as well. The tour of the school was an invaluable introduction to the whole range of US schooling &#8211; though I was told Lackland isn&#8217;t really typical and I could see that Suzanne is exceptionally committed to making the most of the technology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/images\/trespassers_small.jpg\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Welcome, trespassers!\" \/>The Annual Convention of NCTE (which is the US equivalent of NATE) which Julie Blake, Tim Shortis, Andy Goodwyn and I attended for the next four and a half days, merits more than I have time for tonight. Suffice it to say that we were warmly received and were able to engage in a fascinating exchange of ideas. Chris Warren&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishonline.co.uk\/freesite_tour\/resource\/wordlab\/collapser.html\">collapsed text idea<\/a> has now appeared on the US website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Litarchives.com\">LitArchives.com<\/a>, created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Allenwebb.net\">Allan Webb<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmich.edu\/\">Western Michigan University<\/a>. And just to make it clear that despite the notice here, we received a warm welcome wherever we went!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learning about US education at NCTE&#8217;s 2008 Convention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[34,33],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-english-and-ict","tag-nate","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}