I am originally from Washington State, Spokane to be exact…which is why I have Gonzaga winning it all in the March Madness tournament. 🙂 After years of telling the public how horrible the WASL (Washington Assessment of Student Learning) is. The Seattle Times ran this article last week entitled: Exit exam changing state’s classrooms. I have been a huge fan […]
Have you ever found a couple blog posting one right after another that hit you so hard and send your head into a tailspin that you get a serious headache from it? I hope its not just me! I just got done reading the Connectivism blog. I’ve been meaning too for a couple weeks now, and finally today took my […]
This past weekend I had the pleasure of watching a high school performance of Fiddler on the Roof. If you are unfamiliar with the play it is basically about a little village having to deal with changing times, and one man’s struggle of over coming his traditional ways as his children grow up and break traditions of how and who […]
7:55am March 14, 2006 as the students are walking down the hallway to go to class: Student: “Hey are you the guy that took the survey about cell phones?” Me: “Yeah, that was me. Do you have one?” Student: “Yep, I take it with me where ever I go.” Me: “Who do you call? Your fiends, family or Bill Gates?” […]
This week my Professional Development came in the way of conversations. Conversations in person, via e-mail, and through the new course IÂ’m running on Moodle. 6 Teachers taking the course this time bring the number of teachers now using Moodle at our school to 33 with 600 students registered. 0-600 students using an online tool in less then a yearÂ…not […]
This sweet little machine just made it’s way onto my desk here at school. It was sitting upstairs in the drop in lab where the last time someone used it was 2004. So I dusted it off and moved it down to my lab and set it up. So now I need to know what software is a MUST have […]
I’ve been waiting for this day for over a month now. The day when I get to share with you a great blogging project that is happening at our school. It all started with an e-mail I received from a middle school teacher asking if we could meet. She had just read this amazing article and decided that it was […]
Andy Torris pointed me to this great document that just came out last December from educationevolving.org web site. Some great research here, and just more fuel for what we’ve all been saying. The kids are speaking, but are we listening? Technorati Tags: educationevolving.org
Last year, two school board members in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka unsuccessfully pushed to get rid of IB because they said it was anti-American and anti-Christian. OUCH! An article in the Boston Globe looks at the attack facing the International Baccalaureate or IB program in Pittsburgh at the moment and other places around the U.S. There are some harsh […]
So this week I managed about 300 minutes of PD time. I like using minutes rather then hours just because it looks like a lot more time. 🙂 Arvind Grover posted this to my original 25% PD and it had me thinking this week: Jeff, although I never thought of it in the way you describe it, that is exactly […]