(Computer problems…this was suppose to be posted on Jan. 29) My mother-in-law and sister-in-law flew in on Friday to spend the Chinese New Year break with us. (A week vacationÂ…gotta love that!) I rented us all a room down at the Shangri-La which overlooks the Bund. The amount of fireworks that went up in smoke between 11:30 and 12:30 was […]

Goggle has decided to self-censor its content in China. I wonder if that’s why the students have had a hard time connecting to Google lately. I wish I could talk about the impact this will have on China, future generations, and my students. But I’m afraid if I say to much this site, like many others, will get sucked up […]

Perpetual Beta: A theme for many Web services is the idea that software is ever evolving to meet the real-time demands of Web users. Rather than releasing scheduled software updates. Web services like Google will add features as they become available and adapt dynamically to its usersÂ’ requirements, which are in turn de facto ‘testers.Â’ ~ PCAuthority Feb Â’06 So […]

Thanks to Tim Lauer for this great Firefox 1.5 extension. Performancing for Firefox allows you to post articles to your blog from any web sites. It pulls up in split screen view and allows you to easily write and edit to your blog. Writing for 6 different blog sites I have found this very useful the past week and want […]

    A new billboard along the A20 Freeway in Shanghai, China. Sign reads: “Welcome Texas Instruments to the Changzhou District”

Just recieved an invitatiion from an ex-student to join this site www.sms.ac By the looks of it you can sign up to send 5 free text messages to cell phones each day. The great part is you can send them to any phone in the world. So I’m here in China and a friend in the states can send me […]

IÂ’m pretty pumped today as a class of 5th graders uploaded their podcasts today. They recorded a journal entry they had to write as part of a webquest on space. It was the teacherÂ’s idea which makes it all the more cool. Phil Kittower came to me before Winter Break saying he really wanted to take advantage of the Blogs […]

Ok, this is for all you librarians out there. My librarian wrote me an e-mail today and said that IÂ’m becoming more like a librarian everyday. I wrote her back and said “No, youÂ’re becoming more of a techie!” Well we finally got our two worlds to combine this week and the library became a wireless hot spot with 8 […]

Read this article from eSchool News the other day. The most interesting part of the article for me was the following: High schools across the country were asked by the College Board’s world language initiative whether they’d consider adding Advanced Placement (AP) courses in Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese–and the organization was amazed at the results, said Tom Matts, initiative […]

IÂ’ve spend most of the day reading the amazing conversation going on about change. My head is literally spinning, giving me a headache. What do you take for an information overload headache? There is so much good stuff I donÂ’t even know where to begin. Or even what to say, I just know I need to write something. Marc Prensky […]