Sorry about the title, but 5 years of teaching elementary school…I just couldn’t resist. David Warlick wrote this the other day and I’ve had 3 very uncomfortable nights thinking about what I wanted to say. That and being swamped at work has me posting late to the conversation. ItÂ’s why I try not to use that word, and urge others […]
I went to leave a comment on Tim Lauer’s blog yesterday and found out that he has disabled commenting on his blog. I wonder if this is because of all the spam that’s been going around lately. Last weekend in a period of 5 hours I had over 200 spam comments. So I quickly searched for a WordPress plug in […]
Graham Wegner left a comment on a posting the other day, and like I try to do with everyone that leaves a comment I visited his blog to see what he’s talking about. After almost a year of being in the edublogosphere it still amazes me how few blogs I know about which is why I’m promoting the use of […]
OK so I have to work on my mic levels a little and found out why when I talked to Tim Wilson at NECC he said a good pair a headphones is a must. Picking up a set this weekend. Let me introduce to you one of two big projects of mine this year.Pudong Nerve Central: Podcast Headquarters of SAS-PudongBasically […]
Derek walked into technology class like he does every A day on his schedule. A quick “Hello Mr. U” and off to his computer. By the time I greet the other students and we begin class Derek has done the following to his class computer: 1. Change the desktop background to another picture in the sample picture folder. Why? Because […]
So yesterday I got all my 7th graders signed into their Moodle class for the semester. As the students came walking in I had written on the board one simple question: How old is the World Wide Web? Our first area of study in the class is the history of computers and the history of the Internet, so it made […]
On Thursday last week (the first day of school) I met my 6th grade technology class for the first time. After introductions were out of the way. I gave the students a little pretest on Excel. The first program we are going to look at. I asked the students how many of them had experience with Excel and about half […]
It’s Sunday and I was looking forward to a nice lie in this morning. (lie in means sleep in in Australian terms…one of the 7 English languages I speak!) When I was awoken by louder then usual construction work around our apartment. I’ve gotten use to the jackhammer that seems to be pounding away 24/7 out our back window were […]
Back at it again. Yesterday was the kids first day at school and even thought it was a short week for them, it seemed long to the rest of us. The last couple of days before kids show up is always a tug of war between meetings and class prep time. But some how, some way, we always find a […]
Thanks you to all of those that commented on the last posting on this topic. HereÂ’s the problem the teacher side of me says you are all correct. We need the standards, the framework in which to work. But then there is this other side. We keep saying ‘we need them a few more years.Â’ and I know we do. […]