While going through some of the articles in my Google Reader, I came across one by Michael Staton over at Edumorphology – Why Smartboards are a Dumb Initiative. Now, if nothing else, the title caught my attention so, stealing a few moments away this afternoon, I read throught the article. And totally agree. The two…
Traditional Healing “You know, if we allowed doctors or people in medicine to resist change like we do teachers, we’d still be using witch-hazel and leeches” Three times. That’s how many times I’ve heard that analogy about medicine and education in the past 2 months. On the surface, it sure seems to be a good…
This past few weeks has been very hectic, interesting, frustrating….. I’ve been very busy in a number of different areas. So, during this hectic time, I haven’t had the time to interact in my social networks like I am accustom to doing but I do drop by, read and see what is happening, drop a…
As educators who use technology know, there are too many sites out there to visit and go through by oneself. We don’t have the time to do that plus do all the other things that need to get done. That’s why using an online bookmarking tool has become a must for me. Just Managing My…
As an administrator there are so many things that come across my desk during the day that I often have had trouble remembering what I needed to do right now, what could be put on hold and what was something that, when I had more time, I could work on. I tried a number of…
As an administrator, one of the big things that I have to work very hard at is sharing information among the different staff. Because so many different things come across my path during the day, it’s sometimes hard to get the information dispersed to different staff members. One method of doing this is via a…
It’s the New Year and with it comes the usual resolutions that many people make. Like most, I’ve sat down and put together a list of things that I have resolved that need to improve or change in this upcoming year. For the most part, my goal is to change the way that I do…
Summer holidays have officially begun, thank goodness and I’m spending some time figuring out what exactly I might do this summer and what I would like to accomplish in the realm of my own development. My last week of school was less than inspiring with a number of things happening that reaffirmed my thoughts about…
My current reading selection is Transforming Schools by Allison Zmuda, Robert Kuklis, Everett Kline. This has been an interesting read and there are many things I’m mulling over. Today, in the mail, I received my monthly copy of Educational Leadership. Guess what the topic is for the month? Giving Students Ownership of their Learning! Well, if that…
Steve Dembo, over at Teach42, has challenged other bloggers to the 30 days of blogging for the month of November. Since I just ran across this in my RSS reader, I figure I can still get in on it and maybe just add 2 days at the end. What do you think, Steve? My biggest…