Not sure where I first saw the report that Technorati was blocked in China, but I did go test it out, and sure enough on Wednesday it was blocked. Today (Saturday April 29, 2006) it is back working again. The Technorati blog posted on Wednesday that people were complaining, maybe those complaints were heard in Beijing, or maybe it was […]
This week we have been celebrating TV Turn Off week at our school, and when your wife is the counselor leading the charge, you set a good example. So for the past couple of nights we have not watched any TV, turned on a computer or participated in any “Screen” activities. It has been nice, although I find myself getting […]
I didn’t pose my 25% PD last week. For some reason I am finding it harder and harder to actually sit down and write. I find it really easy to sit down and read. I’ve probably read more in the past year then at any other time in my life. That’s a good thing I guess, I just have to […]
Just wanted to say thank you to Mark Gura and Kathy King who run the Podcast for Teacher (PFT) website for the shout out last week. Stop by the PFT web site and check out the archives of past PFT episodes. Mark and Kathy are from the Regional Educational Technology Center (RETC) and do a great job each week of […]
I’ve been quietly following and trying to wrap my head around David Warlick’s concept of telling a new story . I’m not sure if this is what he has in mind, but I think there is a story here somewhere. First I have to give credit to my friend, and hopefully soon to be blogger, Reece Lennon who is a […]
Sometimes people will tell me “There’s more to life than computers and technology.” Of course I know that. There are times when a computer just can’t compete. Like today, it’s 75 degrees outside and the Pre-K and Kindergarten kids have been working on this for two days now. Sometimes a little chalk, a nice sunny day, and just time to […]
So I started a 30boxes account a couple days ago as a way for my wife and me to keep track of our summer plans. So she has a calendar and I have a calendar and we added each other at buddies. So now as we make plans we can both add them to basically the same calendar staying in […]
So my wife and I are sitting at this nice little sandwich shop on TaiKang Lu enjoying our toasted sandwiches when all of a sudden she turns to me and says, “It won’t work, you can’t lock down the computers like that.” Shocked I replied, “What?” “You can’t give a computer to a teacher and then tell them they can’t […]
USA Today ran this article: Computers may not boost student achievement on April 11th. Computers MAY not boost student achievement? Doesn’t that also mean that they may boost student achievement? (You have to love the negative spin) Parents help kids with homework more often and students’ grades benefit slightly In the first year, their grade-point averages rose modestly Those sure […]
It has been a couple weeks since I’ve posed my PD entry. The weeks around Spring Break are always hectic. This week is conferences which has given me some free time to get back into the swing of my goal of 525 minutes of PD a week. This week I accrued about 400 minutes of PD time. Helped by 2 […]