For five days, three hours each morning, for a total of fifteen hours, I had a small class of twelve students of my own. They were between the ages of 9-11 years old, incoming 4th through 6th graders.
I have written in the past weeks about my preparation for the camp on Learning and Teaching Scratch [...]

Day 13: Write a Blog Post Using Comments
From what I’ve seen so far, during the past two weeks, most of us have expanded our commenting awareness in some amazing ways. We’ve discovered new blogs and are interacting more than we might have in the past, which is one of the great things that happens when [...]

The Title of this video says it all…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4VhoWGZ2eA

"Death of Education…The Dawn of Learning"

It has been a week? Today is Day 7 and we are to summarize what we have learned about commenting.
We’re on Day 7 of the comment challenge and it’s time to take a little break to see what you’ve learned. So far you’ve audited your own commenting behavior, commented on a new blog, installed a [...]

photo credit: whizchickenonabun
Thank you to the Comment Challenge, I am discovering so many new and great blogs. One post that caught my eye today was Lame Excuses from Learning in a Flat World. Britt Watwood quotes Mitch Ditkoff on The Idea Champions Weblog’s post The Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating [...]

Yesterday, during our last technology professional development workshop of the year, I introduced a group of our elementary school faculty to the concept of a custom Google Search Engine. Everyone present was invited to be a collaborator and created (if they did not have one) or signed into their google account. I created a step-by-step [...]

In January, I attended a session by Hall Davidson at FETC titled "Revenge of the Digital Immigrant ". After 3 months, I remember th examples of how Davidson demonstrated that the new generation learns with shorter and shorter clips/segments of information. In order to get their point across, commercials decades ago used to be several [...]

Nothing makes me sadder than a student who is turned off by learning. Nothing makes me madder than a capable person who is “wasting” their mind on drugs. And nothing irritates me more than a teacher who makes no effort in continuing to learn.
I understand that everyone has strengths and weaknesses in different areas. One [...]

Pam Shoemaker from Yes Tech! and Kevin Jarrett from NCS-Tech tagged me for this new meme, ” Passion Quilt” created by Miguel Guhlin. I am to find or create an image that captures what I am most passionate for kids to learn about.
Participating in this meme is yet another way to be challenged and to [...]