Have you heard of TeacherTube? It's online at http://www.teachertube.com/ The site says, ''Our goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos. We seek to fill a need for a more educationally focused, safe venue for teachers, schools, and home learners. It is a site to provide anytime, anywhere professional development ...

I like my principal. In fact, I like every principal I have worked with and for. I read a news article today that concerns me and makes me glad that I have had great administrators to work for thus far in my career. Then I got home and looked for a few more. Here’s what I came up with. Teachers say principal threatened to kill them if ...

Just in time for March Madness Watch this video Read this article Being a Middle-Aged Nerd is No Excuse for Stupid What did you just learn? How can you relate it to classroom management? Also, I want to take this opportunity to draw your attention to the new “Rate this article” thing at the top of each article now. Go ahead ...

In case you haven’t already seen it, this post of teacher misbehavior caught on cell phones from Dangerously Irrelevant has been making the rounds. I saw it on Seth Godin’s blog, of all places. Seth’s assessment is that the teachers have a marketing problem. Cam Beck thinks the problem is deeper than simply marketing. He says ...

I read a post today on the Sharing Technology blog and it reminded me to share a tip on how to embed YouTube videos in a TeacherLingo.com blog post.You can easily embed YouTube videos in any TeacherLingo blog post by using the following syntax.   [ YouTube : video code ] The video code is the group of characters after the v= in the ...

During one of the recent episodes of Lost (like my favorite show in the history of ever), they flashed a promo up for going online and posting a video with your theory of what the heck is going on in the show. So of course I jumped at that, posted my video on Sunday, and it finally showed up online today.It's called The True Oceanic 6 (I know, ...

It’s the last half of July, you’re looking for a job, you have no interviews lined up, and school starts in a month or less (or 40 days if you live in Texas). You have all the skills and experience in the world, but simply get no phone calls. The old adage goes, “If you [...]

The name says it all. This is my final post this week in my series of Videos. I hope you’ve enjoyed them. If you didn’t see the ones from Wednesday and Thursday, you really must see those. You should NOT miss these. This is a fun one to close out the week. Tomorrow we begin [...]

The world is changing. Are teachers changing with it?

This is one of the most powerful presentations I’ve seen that pertains to education. If you are interested in being a better teacher, you cannot miss this. It’s an awesome presentation on integrating technology into virtually everything that we do in education. Not only is it beautiful from a presentation standpoint (clean, ...