Ms. Novak who is part of the Discovery Educator Abroad network stopped by our school this week for a visit. I got a chance to sit and talk with her and we were able to record a podcast for Pudong Nerve Central. Read all about Ms. Novak’s travels through China at her Discovery Educator’s blog, and listen to our podcast […]

I went through the other day and found some new podcasts for my 1 hour bus rides to and from school everyday. I came across the Cranky Geeks podcast by John C. Dvorak. I listened to episode 31 on the bus ride home yesterday and was fascinated that here sat some of the geekiest guys in the business and they […]

Yep, we finished one library on the Pudong campus in September and we started the next one. I know I’ve said it before but it amazes me how fast they build things around here. So here you go Mid August Mid September First of October End of October Can you believe it? In just over two months time it went […]

I’m looking for some help here. Our High School department has 20 laptops and they don’t know what they can do with them. I have ideas, but nothing concrete of how these laptops can “Affect student learning beyond word processing and Internet research.” We’re talking all levels of high school. From geometry to IB Calculus. I have a meeting with […]

Once in awhile mix up the order of your RSS feeds. What ever RSS reader you use, take some time to mix them up. I went to add a feed to my netvibes page today only to find out I already had the feed. It was way down at the bottom of my page where I hardly ever make it. […]

I’ve been waiting for this comment and I want to thank Scott Meech who left this comment on my post about using the Google teachable momment. How do you use YouTube with so much inappropriate content on there? A great question and one that I’ve been waiting to answer. First, I need to point out that I am not in […]

Another one from Justin Medved in Bangkok. (Dude, get a blog 🙂 ) There is nothing new with this tool other than it’s new. This layout for teaching persuasive writing has been around for awhile, but here is a cool new way to do it that will engage students in a new and maybe ‘cooler’ way. Is this doing the […]

http://www.google.com/literacy/ Just starting to play with this…but powerful comes to mind. Thanks to Justin Medved in Bangkok for pointing this out to me. If you talk about this please share a link so I can follow the conversation. Technorati Tags: Google Literacy, Google, Literacy

We launched a 1:1 DANA program today in our 5th grade. In each class we came up with our own name for the DANA here is what the 5th graders came up with. DigitalAwesomeNetworkAssistant DigitalAlphaSmartNerdsAssistant DigitalAlphaSmartNetworkAssistant DigitalActiveNetworkAssistant Digital AlphaSmartNerdsApplications Interesting…the fun part is by tomorrow half of them will have crashed because they will go home tonight and download every […]

I love starting off classes with “Have you seen the news?” The kids are so use to it now that some times I have students come to me before I have a chance to say it. This morning no sooner did I get the words out of my mouth when a girl in the class said, “Yep, Google bought YouTube.” […]