I finally setup and began using my own wiki recently and have found it to be a useful technology. Use of the technology was quickly integrated into my productivity strategies and I’m left wondering how I ever managed without it. In a very short time I’ve already found the need to setup additional wikis and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ ...

As I have found myself immersed in the world of edublogging lately, and I have even been able to work face-to-face with some of the bloggers whom I respect enormously, I have come to a sobering conclusion. I have known for some time that praise from administrators and fellow educators does not always correlate with sound [...]

This week’s Carnival of Education features one of the recent posts from this very blog, and I am suitably humbled and excited. Please take a look–you will find all sorts of education blogs to whet your palate. It’s a great event, and it happens each week in a different location! [...]

As our bellies bulge with excess calories this week as a result of the Thanksgiving holiday, I share an opportunity to fill our minds with new words. The author of Wordsmith.org, linguaphile Anu Garg, created a program that randomly displayed rare words and their definitions/etymologies daily for himself. He has been sharing his [...]

Always seeking out new ways to integrate web tools into my classroom instruction, I have to share a fantastic one that I just came across. While data from the decennial U.S. Census has always been available from the official government website, the GIS-style interface and cumbersome vocabulary put up roadblocks to its use in [...]

Okay, so I’m a technology junkie. Call me an “early adopter” or a “technosavvy educator“, but the bottom line is that: I love technology. In my classroom, in my home, in my life. I love the look in a child’s eye when they see a new toy piece of technology. I love being the one that [...]

What began as appreciation for his Flickr tools (which, by the way, are useless to me now that Flickr is blocked by my school district’s web filters), has shifted to his personal blog about his family. John Watson has so many projects that listing them all here would do them a disservice. But, I highly [...]