Working Towards Sustainable Schools

Today is Blog Action Day 2009 – a day in which thousands of blogs will be posting on one topic – and I wanted to share some thoughts on education, the environment, and most importantly, sustainability. This year’s topic, as you can see, is Climate Change. Say what you will about climate change, global warming, [...]

Blog Action Day 2009

Last year, I participated for the first time in Blog Action Day – a day when bloggers write about the same topic from whatever perspective they see fit. I shared this post on poverty and what we should be doing about it in education.
This year’s theme for Blog Action Day is climate change, and I will [...]

Classroom Tech, Part VI: Cell Phones

I’m nearing the end of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in the [...]

Classroom Tech, Part V: PowerPoint

I’m in the middle of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in the [...]

Classroom Tech, Part IV: Shelfari

I’m in the middle of  a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in the [...]

Classroom Tech, Part III: Animoto

I am in the midst of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in [...]

Classroom Tech, Part II: iGoogle

I am in the midst of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in [...]

Classroom Tech, Part I: Delicious

Like most teachers, I enjoy my summer vacation. The weather is hot, dry, and sunny, I don’t have to go to school, and I have an abundance of time to spend just relaxing. Of course, like most other teachers, I like to waste much of this vacation sitting inside on the computer, planning for the [...]

The Choices Teens Make

One of the blogs I read regularly, Webware, posted an article that I thought was interesting, titled “Survey: Teens ’sext’ and post personal info.” It sums up a recent study of teenagers and digital behavior, particularly focused on cyberbullying and sexting. Some of the data quoted in the article that caught my attention:
59 percent of [...]

Ideas for Next Year…Already?

The end of the school year brings a lot of things for teachers: frantic efforts to help students pass, piles of grading, the ritualistic cleansing of the classroom, and of course, a couple of days off before we start preparing for next year.
Of course, for the obsessive among us, we have already begun planning, plotting, [...]