First week of teaching goes well
When the final bell rings today, I will have been a teacher for a week here at Western Plains High School. Well, a week and […]
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Vogts misses posting
Dear readers, I just wanted to apologize for not posting a “Front Page Friday” piece last Friday (though I did get one posted today) and only posting […]
Woman blogs the end of her life
On March 27, Eva Dien Brine Markvoort, of Vancouver, Canada, died after battling cystic fibrosis. She was 25 years old. Itself, her death isn’t that […]
WPHS gets coverage in Hutch News
You know this Honor Flight a few Western Plains High School students are participating in that I’ve been talking about? Well, they left Wednesday, and […]
WPHS students blogging Honor Flight trip
On Wednesday, Western Plains High School students Beth Lutters (junior), Trista Jenner (senior), Chase Rein (junior), and Jared Stieben (junior), along with WPHS teacher Debbie […]
Vogts adopts new publishing method
This blog, The Voice of the Vogts, is great and is my primary blog. I love the WordPress interface, but I have found it difficult […]
NY Times partners with NYU
In January 2010, I wrote about how The New York Times was turning editorial control of one of their blogs, The Local: Fort Greene and […]
Online journalism dubbed Fifth Estate
The press in the United States and abroad has long been referred to as the Fourth Estate. The term was seemingly coined by Scottish writer […]
NY Times turns blog over to CUNY
In March 2009, The New York Times launched a blogging experiment by debuting two blogs they called The Local blogs. One covered New York’s Fort […]
Friend starts blogging in 2010
A friend of mine, Rebecca Windle, teaches fourth and fifth grade at the Western Plains Elementary School in Ransom, Kan., which is where I now […]
Top 10 resolutions for 2010
The year of 2009 ended on a considerable down note. I work at Western Plains High School as a paraeducator and an assistant boys’ basketball […]
‘Uncle Jay Explains the News – September 24, 2007’
I found this while reading tweets on Twitter. This is a pretty humorous take on the news and blogging. I hope you enjoy: