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 […]
Is it just me or when you need that little extra push to keep going you can find it in this community? We are in the middle of creating architectural plans for the new elementary library that ground breaking is scheduled for this May and completion next December. I have been on a task force looking at making this building […]
So itÂ’s official which means I can talk about it here now. My job has changed for next year. Instead of being an Elementary Technology Teacher teaching Kindergarten, 1st and 5th grade, I will be a .6 MS/ES Tech Teacher and .4 Technology ??? (Title still up for discussion) The .6 will be fun as I will move to the […]