Lately, I have noticed a larger number of prospective and newer teachers leaving comments to my various articles. This has helped inspire me to offer what advice I can in a (hopefully) weekly question and answer forum. For lack of creativity, we’ll call it “Ask Joel” and begin next week. Any question is fair game, whether ...

In the Christmas break, I am looking back at this blog’s growth and development. I began writing a little bit for the blog in February, but didn’t officially launch it for real until June. Since that time, growth has been pretty consistent. I now seem to regularly get a small number of comments for every article I write, with some ...

Welcome to the 148th edition of the Carnival of Education! As is one of my signature styles, I want to present this carnival in list format. We’ll begin with a Top 5 list… The Main Attraction Obviously the process of creating any “Top 5″ list is subjective and open to argument and debate. With nearly50 submissions, I [...]

Educators are not the most technically proficient people in the world. How many times did I have a teacher when I was in school who couldn’t operate a VCR? I happen to be an ultra nerd (I was co-president of the computer club and went to the Texas state computer programming contest when I [...]

The penultimate Thursday of every November is Thanksgiving Day in the United States. In celebration of this, and in appreciation of all of my readers, I am aiming to set aside every day of November to spotlight one of my readers and say Thank You for visiting and coming back! This is open to anyone who [...]

A long time ago, I was tagged by Miss A. I have some free time this morning as I get ready to go out of town with the HS band, so I thought I’d get around to this thing here… Is School 2.0 about technology or pedagogy (teaching methods)? Though I am not terribly familiar with the [...]