Do I Dare Disturb the Universe?

“Missing the launch window.” Your kid is tired, but somehow you didn’t get her down to bed at the prime “falling-asleep” time. Now you’re left with a cranky kid who is tired but can’t or won’t go to sleep. This is not to be confused with…
“Scrubbed launch.” You thought the kid was tired, but attempting […]

I’ve found a good theme recently so I’m going to stick with it. I came across this great blog post by “Speaker Sue” in which she points out what Blue Man Group can teach us about - you guessed it! - presentations!
Imagine your classroom (or your next professional development, or your next parent group meeting…) […]

I received an email from Brian, a middle school social studies teacher in Boston, who expressed an interest in presenting to his faculty about improving his presentation skills. He wrote:
The creative juices that flow as I try and design better slides has not only provided a nice outlet for me in the weeks before Christmas […]

Not necessarily educationally related, but I loves me some stats! Now you can see all the statistics on your Flickr photos if you activate your “Flickr stats.”
[via Around the Corner]

Not what you think. Check out this lightweight to-do app for Leopard. I like the simple, translucent interface and iCal integration.

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My slideshow has been selected by SlideShare as the “Slideshow of the Day” and has been featured on their main page! This is all kind of overwhelming considering I created the slideshow to present to my faculty, then posted it to my blog figuring a couple people might be interested…
Then, based on […]

You asked for it…
For those who expressed interest in a “multimedia” version of my Presentation on Presentations, here is the result of a couple days worth of work. I recorded the voiceover in Garage Band in two takes so there are a couple of flubs (yes, I know video from YouTube isn’t copyrighted, but I […]

I just emailed my last two assignments for the semester to my professors. Two classes down, 13 plus a dissertation to go.

I wrote this post on Monday and wasn’t going to publish it. Then I saw At the Schoolhouse Gate’s recent post about the student who was suspended for posting online a list of students he didn’t like (article here). Seems these here Interwebs have a lot of otherwise level-headed people going off half-cocked.
I’m an active […]

“Mr. Elias! I got a ‘B’ on my math test! I’m texting my mom that I’m a genius! How do I spell that? G-E-N-I-O-U-S?”
I love this job.