Listened to a great TWIT podcast on the way home today. Episode 92: The Tiki Gods They talked a lot about social networks, what makes they work, why do they work. They talk about porn sites and how do we keep kids safe…an interesting conversation from outside the educational arena. Listen to this podcast as an educators. What are saying […]
A great use of a blog from some of our middle school staff and students. Our middles school does a “Week without walls” where they go and visit other cities in Shanghai for the week. Before they left I met with the 8th grade team who set up a blog and each day have the students reflect on what they […]
My Superintendent last week: “I’ve learned that there is a fine line between chaos and coherent.†This statement has been replaying itself in my head now for a week. Maybe because I’m feeling my life is on the chaotic side of that line at the moment. However, I’ve also been reflecting at where we are in education and where we […]
Another long day but a good one over all. Taught middle schoolers how to create header images for their blogs or web sites. Taught a high school elective via video conference about wikis, tags, and rss to kick off the horizonproject. Then brought 9 new teachers into the blogosphere with an after school Professional Development opportunity. On thing that is […]
I haven’t been writing a lot lately and once again it comes back to reading…I just can’t find the time to read blogs in my schedule. No reading=No writing=No Learning. The funny part is…it frustrates me. So here it is 4:11am in the morning and am making time to read. Here’s some of the stuff I’m catching up on. $100 […]
Looks like I’ve been tagged with the secret of success meme from both Sheryl and Doug. First, not sure what counts at being successful. If it’s changing your wife’s sleeping habits…then I guess I qualify. So here’s the charge: List the top 5 to 10 things that you do almost every day that help you to be successful. They can […]
I have been privileged this past week to spend three days with Frances Hensley from the National School Reform Faculty. A group of 20 of us from my school were able to spend 3 days with Ms. Hensley in October and she was back for three more days of Critical Friends Training. Critical Friends Groups are: A CFG is a […]
It’s been too long in between podcasts, but I did have a lot on my mind walking home on Tuesday. I work through some thoughts I had on my students and their teentek.com site, Twitter and what does it mean, and some amazing work from teachers. This Also spilt over into my post today for techlearning.com where I go even […]
The Catshanghai blog listed the top English blogs based off Technorati and the Stick came in 8th. They used the old URL for the site. This URL according to Technorati has 133 blogs linked to it, which would put the Stick 6th. Not sure how complete the list is but still pretty cool stuff. I follow the Shanghaiist blog but […]
So my post earlier today was a lot of frustration at myself and not having the skills necessary to continue to move my school forward. I was at my wits end and was not looking forward to walking into first period and hearing the “Mr. U, I can’t get on my blog.” I felt as though I had let them […]