I live this stuff, preach this stuff and yet when I see it happen I canÂ’t help but smile and think just how incredible it all really is. Sometimes, like Thursday in class, a student will say something, or will make a comment that just brings it all in and makes it real. “I canÂ’t believe I really have something […]

[gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/aKMNN–U8Rk”][/gv] Not all of them are uploaded yet, but seeing that it’s almost Friday here thought I’d post. This is one of my favorites on the history of IBM. Check out the other videos here. Please leave comments or rating for the videos, as they will be included as part of the assessmnet of this project. Enjoy! 🙂

My review of NECC 2006 wasn’t all that pleasant. But now it’s time to shut up and put up. So I’ve decided to submit a proposal for NECC 2007. I’m starting to understand how difficult it is to think about what to present 8 months before the actual conference. So here’s the thing. If you are, or are planning to […]

So I’m sitting in class right now with my 7th graders. They are busy working on their digital stories that on Thursday we will upload to youtube. For those of you who might be out of the loop, youtube is THE site right now for teenagers. They are all over that site. Myspace is dead and youtube is it. Of […]

I have to start by giving David Jakes a big thank you for inviting me to be apart of the techlearning.com blog. If this is your first time visiting The Thinking Stick I welcome you and hope you find something here thought provoking, useful, or interesting. If not, oh well I tried. 🙂 A quick background for those that are […]

I’ve been looking for a way to have a online calendar that I can share with teachers to let them know where I am and some how be able to keep it in sync with my Palm Calendar and my T5. So I got thinking last night and thought Google calendars seems to be getting good reviews so I did […]

This report came out at about 13:00 local time here in Shanghai. Australia’s “Crocodile Hunter” Irwin dies By 14:30 it was the talk of the school. Sad to hear for most of our students grew up on the Crocodile Hunter.

OK, this could be dangerous! I went through and geo tagged some of my pictures of Shanghai on my flickr map. Way to much fun trying to find the buildings and such. This map is REALLY old. Not sure how old, but our apartment is a construction zone and it was built in 2001, so at least that old. My […]

I had the Vice Principal approach me last week about Moodle. She’d been hearing the buzy from the faculty who have been using it and wanted to learn more about it. I made her an administrator of the site so that she could view classes and see the learning that is taking place within the site. Later she made an […]

Republished from Weblogg-ed Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006? convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This yearÂ’s conference is scheduled to be held over two weeks, Oct. 23-27 and Oct. 30- Nov. 3 with the theme “Unleashing the Potential.” A call for proposals […]