How Do We Get from Here to There?

I was never the most prolific blogger, but I’ve decided to officially put the blog on pause. This is a time when I am focused on several projects and am considering the reasons why I blog in the first place.
I hope to come out at the end of this with a clearer view of where [...]

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Standards, differentiation, engagement, etc. are all ideas school administrators are comfortable using and discussing with staff.  Technology integration is a completely different matter. How can you possibly become comfortable with ideas and resources that are in a constant state of change? Why bother at all? Won’t a lot of this integration just lead to more [...]

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With the current state of the economy and job market, the May 25, 2009 issue of Time Magazine caught my attention immediately. The cover article was entitled “The Future of Work”. The general ideas have been written about in other places as well, and I’ve been thinking about how the ideas should (?) impact the [...]

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I teach with a staff that works on a highly-collaborative, personal learning community (PLC) model. A couple of years ago I started a staff wiki so we could post and share the resources we were finding, creating, and using.  For the first year, people said it was “cool”, but I was the only one who [...]

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There has been a lot of talk about using iPods as an educational tool.  Many schools have taken the leap. A neighboring district has a great program called iRead. Bloggers/Podcasters such as Scott Meech have begun really looking at how educators are using them. More and more educators are looking, or at least thinking about [...]

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I was so excited to go to this year’s Computer Using Educator (CUE) conference.  With Alice Mercer, I co-presented for the first time, and I sat on a panel with Steve Hargadon as well.  I learned a lot, I talked with great people, met new people, etc. I had planned to write a post about [...]

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After attending (virtually) a university course presented by Alec Couros (Regina, Saskatchewan) with guest speaker Lisa Thumann (New Jersey) last week, I commented that I felt like I had learned more through personal learning network (PLN) professional development opportunities than in umpteen years of formal education. Tonight I listened to an Educon (an education conference [...]

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This morning, I listened to President Bush give his final press interview.  During his initial address to the press corps, he stated that he had sometimes been “misunderestimated”.  Now this isn’t the first time he has used the term, and it isn’t the only term that is unique to Mr. Bush.  Bushisms can be found [...]

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Have You been Tagged by the SEVEN THINGS Meme?
I was just tagged by JoNelle Gardner in the meme going around the education blog circles called “Seven Things”.
Here are the rules:
* Link your original tagger(s), and list these rules on your blog.
* Share seven facts about yourself in the post – some random, some weird.
* Tag [...]

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Right before the winter break, one of my students moved.  This wasn’t the first one to do so, and won’t be the last. This was one was special. He came from a lousy, lousy home situation and had to move away because the apartments his family lived in are being torn down. He and his [...]

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