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 […]
Just downloaded and installed the new IE7 beta 2 preview. Looks like Firefox with really big buttons. I wanted to blog about it so I started up Firefox so I could use the Performancing plugin I have grown to love. 🙂
I was excited for this Chinese New Years break, not just because my Sister-In-Law and Mother-In-Law were coming to visit. 😉 But because I had planned to get some work done on the blog. But instead I’ve been laid up now for 4 days with a 101 temperature that I can’t seem to control, so today I drug myself to […]
(Computer problems…this was suppose to be posted on Jan. 29) My mother-in-law and sister-in-law flew in on Friday to spend the Chinese New Year break with us. (A week vacationÂ…gotta love that!) I rented us all a room down at the Shangri-La which overlooks the Bund. The amount of fireworks that went up in smoke between 11:30 and 12:30 was […]
Goggle has decided to self-censor its content in China. I wonder if that’s why the students have had a hard time connecting to Google lately. I wish I could talk about the impact this will have on China, future generations, and my students. But I’m afraid if I say to much this site, like many others, will get sucked up […]
Perpetual Beta: A theme for many Web services is the idea that software is ever evolving to meet the real-time demands of Web users. Rather than releasing scheduled software updates. Web services like Google will add features as they become available and adapt dynamically to its usersÂ’ requirements, which are in turn de facto ‘testers.Â’ ~ PCAuthority Feb Â’06 So […]
Thanks to Tim Lauer for this great Firefox 1.5 extension. Performancing for Firefox allows you to post articles to your blog from any web sites. It pulls up in split screen view and allows you to easily write and edit to your blog. Writing for 6 different blog sites I have found this very useful the past week and want […]
A new billboard along the A20 Freeway in Shanghai, China. Sign reads: “Welcome Texas Instruments to the Changzhou District”