The Thinking Stick

A blog post I wrote to High School Students.

As I’ve been helping students get going with their gmail accounts and blogs over the past couple of weeks I’ve been joking about the “old school” e-mail systems that some of you still use. Hotmail, Yahoo…and seriously….AOL…come on…..…

My thoughts after reading Seth Godin’s post Back to (the wrong) school and Douglas Rushkoff post Are Jobs Obsolete?

The other day I was looking at a curriculum map similar to this one:

As I was looking over it I started …

As we move to Google Apps for Education at my school I gave a quick 10 minute talk at a staff meeting on 5 Gmail Tips for Teachers. Here they are:

1. Archive is Your Friend

 Getting use to archiving everything is a change. Google wants you, begs you, to …

A blog post I put out to this year’s COETAILers….cross posted here

Ready or not a new school year is upon us and the CoETaIL Program continues to expand. This will be the second year of CoETaIL under this site and structure and the expansion of the …

It’s been said many times:

If you give every student a laptop but do not fundementally change the way you teach than the power of the new technoogy will never be reached

OK….maybe not exactly like that but I’m sure you’ve heard quotes like it whenever talk turns …

At ISB we’ve struggled over the past couple of years in defining our web spaces. Although we’ve been getting better at using the “Core 3″ (Moodle, Google Apps, WordPress) we still need to define spaces based on purpose and audience. 

One thing I’m focusing on this year is creating what …

Throughout a day at work I end up taking and sending a lot of screenshots to teachers to help them troubleshoot issues or just to remind them where to click. I thought it would be fun to keep all the screenshots from one day at work and let them tell …

A great feature popped up in my Google Apps for Educaiton GCal the other day. I was putting in some meetings and noticed an “Appointment Slots” link in the event window.

Not sure how long it’s been out (please somebody tell me it hasn’t been years), but it’s turning out …

So a new school year is upon us, as today was the first day for students at ISB. I spent the first hour helping new middle school students find their way around the school….what fun. ISB set a new record for the amount of new students this year. A …

In May I noticed I was being asked to hold more and more trainings at my own school and around the world on Google Apps as schools make the move to Google Apps for Education (GAFE). It’s simple, cost effective, and just so vaulable of a resource to have school …