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The good news for this mom is that I have spent 15 years in education by the time my oldest is entering Kindergarten, the bad news is that doesn’t matter. The panic allegedly began 2PM Thursday, when my son’s long… Continue Reading →
I had a great ISTE this year. I was a little Twitter-star struck, managed to be act normal with several cool people that I was lucky enough to meet, and had some of my paradigms shifted. And, I was challenged… Continue Reading →
I have been feeling introspective lately and had two recent conversations with @LancelotTeacher and @JohnHardison1 that have helped me make some connections to what I believe. John is starting up a blend learning academy for our district and as we… Continue Reading →
I am not sure about MS Word document value (dramatic pause) in online Professional Development courses. Compliance courses masquerading as PD are one thing, but please, don’t let this bleed over into PD!
Educational terms can become overwhelming. And if they don’t make you quit in the first five years of your career, they will hound, test, confuse you for the next 25 or so. So forgive the initial eye roll on the… Continue Reading →
I became interested in joining Blended Schools Network MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) for two reasons. One was that it sounded like a cool thing to try out in an area I already had some background knowledge – it was… Continue Reading →
In the process of starting something for a Udemy course I (of course) wanted to include an appropriate infographic. I found this infographic on Pinterest – https://pinterest.com/pen63/ . As you pinners know the source page for pins you love are… Continue Reading →
This was my 3,000th tweet. I did not even realize that I had surpassed 3,000 until the next day when I had an occasion to look something up on twitter.com directly. Surely, this is a chance for reflection. I am… Continue Reading →
One of the systems I support in my school district is a relatively new technology, a Learning Management System (LMS). Of course being a model of public K12, my system has some entrenched prior systems with unique idiosyncrasies. For the… Continue Reading →
National Public Radio’s Fresh Air segment on The Inquisition is an interview with Cullen Murphy, author of God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World. (National Public Radio, Fresh Air podcast. January 23, 2013) In this interview… Continue Reading →
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