On Thursday last week (the first day of school) I met my 6th grade technology class for the first time. After introductions were out of the way. I gave the students a little pretest on Excel. The first program we are going to look at. I asked the students how many of them had experience with Excel and about half […]
It’s Sunday and I was looking forward to a nice lie in this morning. (lie in means sleep in in Australian terms…one of the 7 English languages I speak!) When I was awoken by louder then usual construction work around our apartment. I’ve gotten use to the jackhammer that seems to be pounding away 24/7 out our back window were […]
Back at it again. Yesterday was the kids first day at school and even thought it was a short week for them, it seemed long to the rest of us. The last couple of days before kids show up is always a tug of war between meetings and class prep time. But some how, some way, we always find a […]
Thanks you to all of those that commented on the last posting on this topic. HereÂ’s the problem the teacher side of me says you are all correct. We need the standards, the framework in which to work. But then there is this other side. We keep saying ‘we need them a few more years.Â’ and I know we do. […]
So I kind of got behind posting pictures and even got in trouble from some of the teachers at school who have been reading this to keep up on the development of the new Media Center. There are two sets of pictures. One taken on Monday and the other today Thursday Aug. 17, 2006. The first day for students. Drop […]
On my way to our technology standards meeting and there is something not sitting well with me. I can’t put my finger on it but I just keep asking myself: Do we need technology standards? The new NETs for students look good. But I can’t help but think that we are focusing on the wrong thing. If technology is a […]
So tonight was our ‘Beginning of the year BBQ’ basically a meet up of all the teachers to welcome each other back from the summer break. It’s a good time to catch up on what everyone did this summer and meet some of the new people. I happened to sit down next to our new High School science teacher who […]
One thing that blogging, Skyping, and social-networking has taught me is to listen for the conversations. The conversations that carry a message of the flat world or of the changing of our society. In the last couple of days I’ve had some conversations that have made me stop and think about the world we are in today and the world […]
So now that I’ve had a couple of days to think about what this means about China’s policies and ultimately what this means for the Chinese citizens here’s what I’m thinking. I can’t help but think there is something going on behind the scenes here. Blogger is owned by Google, Google and China have been in talks about filtering and […]
It’s late at night and I’m on my way to bed after a long day but needed to post this. I received two text messages from friends today that simple said “Blogspot is unblocked!“ This is huge! Give it a moment to sink in. Now I can finally read and respond to David Jakes, Vicki Davis and the rest of […]