Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

Thanks in no small part to my participation in this community, I have been giving a lot of thought to student engagement and even working on a project with a pair of science teachers that we hope will hook some kids into learning about the ocean.  We met yesterday to hash out some more ideas […]

For the last week or so I’ve seen the PSEA Legal Division’s Blogging 101 document floating around the edu-blogosphere.  While there are definitely some good points in the document, I can’t help but be bothered by the subtext that seems to permeate the entire document:
Go ahead and blog if you really, really want to, but […]

If you need some very basic (and free!) mind-mapping functionality, check out bubbl.us.  My mind is already spinning with ways this could be incorporated into the classroom.
As seen on: Lifehacker & The Cranking Widgets Blog

I wrote earlier in the week about a wiki project I am embarking on with a couple of our science teachers.  This afternoon over lunch, one of our outstanding English faculty who heard about what we were working on approached me and asked about the limits and possibilities of using Google Notebook as a research […]

When I started this blog way back - well - last week, I thought I’d be posting a lot on technology and educational leadership.  But here I am again posting about "Lo-Fi" note taking.
A recent post on Lifehack.org pointed me to an older blog post by Michael Hyatt of Working Smart regarding the "lost art" […]

I came across this really cool photo tool this morning.  Perfect for when you need to do some basic photo editing, enhancing or resizing and don’t need or want to open Photoshop or iPhoto.  There’s nothing to download or install — it’s 100% browser-based.
Snipshot
I clicked around and messed with a couple of the pics they […]

My first mini-breakthrough so I have to share…
I had a meeting on Tuesday with a first-year teacher in my charge who is interested in doing "something different" with his science classes.  We talked about what he’s doing now which was pretty "standard" stuff — lecturing and note-taking.  Then we started to brainstorm a bit about […]

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There is a plethora of information online about various implementations of David Allen’s GTD
system, but precious few examples in the field of education.  Even
fewer than that address the unique aspects of the […]

Today’s Rocky Mountain News had a feature on cell phones and portable electronics in schools (see: Readin’, writin’, and textin’).  I have worked in a large district where there was a district-wide "don’t-ask-don’t-tell" policy regarding these devices, and now a smaller district where schools are free to create (and enforce!) their own policies regarding personal […]

My principal asked me to join him this summer at the annual Model Schools Conference in Washington, D.C.  The District is generously picking up the tab for us.
Anyone else going?  Have you been?