Why do we create fear before we know there is something to be afraid of? Yesterday I ran up against the fear of what parents might do. I did the best I could to present evidence that we don’t know how parents will react to every teacher having a web site, and the different ways teachers will use the space. […]
This is what I love about the read/write web. The conversation that can not take place anywhere else, and a conversation that I get to be a part of even though I’m almost exactly half way around the world from the east coast of the U.S.A. Dave Warlick started the conversation about 1:1 laptop programs and the conversation that it […]
My new favorite extension for Firefox is called SpellBound a spell checker for the web. It works much like the spell checker in Word in that it underlines misspelled words in red. You then hold down the Control key and click on the word and a list of suggestions appears. For someone like me who is a horrible speller, this […]
As you can see I spent most of my Saturday doing a little maintenance work on the Thinking Stick. I took about an hour and a half over lunch in creating the new banner for the site. I finally gave into the Photoshop crowd and used a tutorial to create the banner. I’m a Fireworks guy and am much more […]
Found this at the Performancing blog. Jeremy Zawodny creation.
From eSchool News: Schools feel void with no ed-tech chief Nearly six months after the nation’s top educational technology official stepped down, the U.S. Department of Education has yet to name a replacement. With the federal focus shifting to math and science education, advocates of school technology say having a point person to turn to for guidance within the department’s […]
I just finished reading “Standards For Staff Development” by the National Staff Development Council (NSDC). The last revised edition (from what I can find) was in 2001. After reading the document I went back and read David WarlickÂ’s post OK, No More Staff Development and my own remix of that conversation. Let me highlight a few NSDCÂ’s recommendations: Learning Communities: […]
I was joking around with my 5th graders today and told one of them. “Go back to your room and write I love computers 500 times.” Without missing a beat the kid said: “That’s easy…copy paste, copy paste, copy paste.”
Just finished giving a Cyber Bullying presentation to some parents at our school. Coming away from the meeting I’m shocked, but probably shouldn’t be. Here are some quotes from parents that have stuck with me: “My 4th grader knowns more then I do, how do I keep up?”“Can you tell me what age I should allow my student on the […]
So Will Richardson up and quit his job. 2006 might just turn out to be the year that education lost all its great technology minds. It scares me a little that I can relate to what Will talks about in his post. The frustration, the conversation becoming bigger then the work you are doing in the schools, the feeling that […]