Just a quick midsummer’s post to let you know about two new ways to access my blog: Odiogo is an excellent text-to-speech service that has voice-enabled my blogposts. If listening is more your style than reading, click on the “Listen Now” icon just below each post title. You can stream…
Leadership Day 2009
Scott McLeod at Dangerously Irrelevant asks the educational blogging community to write about effective (or ineffective) school technology leadership today. School leadership in general has been on my mind the last few months, and will undoubtedly find its way to this blog sooner rather than later, but to address Dr….
Mapping Out My Mind
The other night, I got to thinking about some things I’ve got coming up on the horizon, both personal and professional. The funny thing about it was that with each new thought, I came up with another two or three tangentially related things I’d like to accomplish. In a way,…
Everything Must Go
If you are a regular visitor to this blog, perhaps you’ve noticed a new tab on the upper-right-hand side menu: Teaching Materials. I’ve decided that it would be a shame if the lesson plans, projects, activities, and related materials I created over eight years of teaching were to just sit…
Open Letter to a New Teacher
The strangest, albeit pretty wonderful, thing happened to me the other day. I was helping clean up from dinner when my cell phone rang. When my wife answered and then handed it to me, the Caller ID gave a Texas number. I know very few people in Texas, and this…