I mean I know you can do it…I’m doing it..but is this amazing or what. My Mother-in-Law is on her way to China. Using a flight tracker and Google Earth I can watch in real time as she makes her way across the Pacific. Seeing that we are about 10 miles from the airport and it’s pretty foggy and because […]
I just left this comment on a message board with some pre-service teachers: What is more important to be adaptable or knowledgeable? (think dinosaurs) The word adaptable and adaptability have been floating around in my head for some time now and how they define what we are trying to do in the 21st century and why it is so hard […]
I’ve been feeling it for a couple days now as the weather here has started to change, but today I’m feeling it. Call it the ‘itch’ or the 20 years I played the game…but there is something in my blood that just knows when the time has come. It hit 60F here for the first time today, and even though […]
Preparing for our upcoming Tech Fest is taking it out of me…and more importantly taking up my blogging time. I find myself eager to just sit, relax and blog….funny that writing has become a relaxing activity for me….never in my life did I ever think that would happen. The biggest crime of the last week and a half is the […]
mwesch of YouTube left a video response to my Web 2.0 video that I uploaded almost a year ago now. A great video worth your 4 minutes. [tags]web 2.0, youtube[/tags] Technorati Tags: web 2.0, youtube
I’ve made it a point to take some time out of my busy day to relax and read and respond to some student blogs at our school’s blog headquarters. I’ll try not to do this too ofter..but sometimes the writing and reflection are so good…I just have to share. So here is what has me thinking tonight. Katrinablog Even though […]
The second screencast in the Utechtips series on Firefox is now posted. This screencast goes over using the del.icio.us extension. Install, set up and use. Here it is! [tag]firefox, utechtips[/tags] Technorati Tags: firefox, firefox2, del.icio.us, delicious, screencast, education
I’m proud…proud as an employee can be, that my principal just started his own professional blog. He’s had one for school purposes for a couple of months now…but now he has his own professional blog as well. Sentiments on Common Sense joins the blogging community. Andy starts this blog as he heads out of Shanghai bound for the States to […]
Yesterday I, along with about 10 other educators from my school, went to the first Apple seminar for international schools held here in Shanghai. Apple has sent a team here to “break into the international school market in Asia.” They are based in Beijing but travel around Asia promoting their products and what they can offer to schools who are […]
There is this amazing elementary school counselor at our school (Full Disclosure: I’m married to her) who set out about a month ago to incorporate technology into her classroom lessons around friendship. She found the school’s resident techno geek and putting their heads together they came up with a plan to help 4th graders better understand the meaning of friendship, […]