Due to the Earthquake off of Taiwan on Dec. 26 the Internet here in China is slow if connecting at all with North America. I’m worried as we start school on Monday that our Online classroom (Moodle Site) won’t be available to students and staff. The earthquake cut fiber-optic lines between Asia and North America making the rerouting of Internet […]
Looks like I’ve been tagged by Julie Lindsay to give you 5, maybe unknown, facts about me. So here it goes. 1. I am originally from Greenacres, Washington. Yep, there really is a place named Greenacres just like the old TV show. Overseas I usually tell people I’m from Seattle as it’s a large city that most people know thanks […]
So I made it back from Vietnam rested, reflected, and ready for a new year. If today, my first day back, is in anyway a show of what awaits us all in 2007 then I’m excited. Today, I woke up looking forward to tackling the long list of e-mails that awaited me from my 2 weeks of being disconnected (OK, […]
Well, we’re down to the last 3 hours of school for 2006. It’s been a long haul these past couple of months. We don’t get to enjoy the little 3 day weekends that are so popular in the States. We have been full on since Chinese National Day break in September. We did get half day on Friday over Thanksgiving. […]
From the Washington Post: It’s no easy job to regain control and coax the students into writing an essay about what they did last weekend. Fortunately for the teacher, it was only a computer simulation. Virtual classroom management training…I don’t know about this one. Is it a great place to start? Maybe but nothing beats experiencing the first time you […]
How far away are we in education from actually having computer games that attract students? I want to know of the first school that stops looking at computer games and starts looking at Wii and PS3 as a way for students to learn in a digital world. From the Detroit Free Press comes an article “Games of learning take action […]
The quarter ends on January 12, so my 6th and 7th graders are working on their final projects. Technology is only a semester long class, so this project is worth about 20% of their grade. 6th Grade is creating web sites about Internet Safety. They have to create an index page and then 3 sub pages dealing with Internet Safety. […]
A presentation to Middle School parents around technology and their children. Helping parents understand that today’s students are different. Their brains process information differently and the digital world they live in is different then the world we grew up in. Shift happens, and learning to deal with the changes facing our world and how to help your child be successful […]
Funny how you never know where you mind will go. I meant to leave a short comment on Warlick’s post about Leaving Flock and ended up writing a three paragraph comment. It just kind of happened. Here’s part of the comment that I want to expand on: I know a lot of people who tried using Flock, me included, who […]
It’s funny how when you spend time like I have the past 3 days to make a point to comment on others that you start reflecting and things start clicking. I left a couple comments that ended this way. I hate to write, but love to blog! The question is why? I’ve never been a good writer, I’ve hated writing […]