Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

Technology aside, there’s no denying that "kids today" (Don’t you love that expression?) don’t learn like the students of even a few years ago. As a teacher, I used to overhear some colleagues who would criticize students who asked that timeless question: "When will we ever use this?"
"When?" the teacher would mock as he choked […]

I started this little blogging project back in January and I have to say I’m pretty pleased with how things have been going. Two things especially come to mind as I reflect back on the 50 or so posts I’ve written so far.
First, my thoughts on what I would blog about have really developed. Initially, […]

LeaderTalk has been a great source of inspiration for me lately. Greg Farr’s Web 2.0 Credo (Great stuff, Greg!) reminded me of some important realizations I’ve had on my journey this year. Not the least of which is the power of modeling what you want the staff to be doing. In my "younger" days as […]

I read Dave Younce’s LeaderTalk post on being an educator and parent, and while my kids aren’t in school right now, our oldest turns 3 this summer (When did that happen?) and will start pre-school in the fall. He’ll be going to school Tuesdays and Thursdays for 3 hours each day.
While I’m not (yet) having […]

Back from Spring Break this week and it’s been crazy! I’ve spent Monday and Tuesday putting together a couple of new resources for our Internet Study today so I wanted to share them with you. They’ve been done before (and done better, no doubt!), but I’ve put together a "Why use Firefox" post and a […]

[Note: I’m resisting the urge to put "back up early and often" as number 1 as I had this entire post written last night in TextMate and my MacBook experienced a kernel panic… So now I’m back to Google Docs…]
Scott "Dangerously Irrelevant" McLeod tagged me with the Secret of My Success meme which, admittedly, […]

Just a note to point you toward my second LeaderTalk article which posted today. This time, I offer some productivity hacks for new and aspiring administrators. Thanks for reading!

I’m on Spring Break this week. That means I’m enjoying the time off with my wife, our son, and our new addition. I’ve got a post coming on LeaderTalk this Thursday, but other than that I’m taking some much needed family time.
I hope everyone had a great Easter and
or Passover!
Photo: "binary easter egg" by Rakka
Want […]

I started out writing a "brief" post to answer a teacher’s question regarding posting pictures on a blog. What I ended up with is a two-part, mini-tutorial on Creative Commons licenses and downloading pictures from Flickr. I’m posting here in the event it may be of use to anyone else doing similar work.

Part 1  - […]

I love discovering new tools that are simultaneously cool and useful. I commute about 30 minutes each way to work which isn’t ridiculously long, but it’s long enough that I spend a lot of time thinking about - well - random things. Some of these random things I’d like to capture, but if you’ve ever […]