I’ve been doing some pondering about what I’ll do with staff on the first day back. I’ve ran across some interesting post that discuss the whole staff meeting question and what the meeting should contain.Zoe Branigan-Pipe has some good comments about our need to remember that, if we expect teachers to engage students then, as…
The network This article gives 10 good reasons to join a social network. For me, this power has been exemplified through the new blog Connected Principals started by George Couros a principal from Alberta. Now, the thing that really grabbed my attention was that this blog has just started and, through the power of the…
I’m on Vacation One of my favourite movies is City Slickers (1991). In this movie Mitch Robbins, Billy Crystal, and his two friends decide to take their vacation on a dude ranch. There’s a scene part way through the movie that begins with Crystal’s character causing a stampede by firing up his electric coffee grinder. The ensuing chaos…
I It’s been a very long time since I’ve done any blogging. Well, any writing for that matter. It’s not that I haven’t had things that I could write about, it’s just that I wasn’t sure where they fit or how to word them in such a way that was politically correct. I’m sure that…
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…
Well, I’ve submitted my proposal for the upcoming iT Summit in Saskatoon in May. I’m going to do a presentation on using different tools to help teachers and staff to communicate and organize. I’m planning to look at using wikis, Evernote, google docs, google calendar, google reader, diigo and maybe a few other tools that…
Tag – you remember that game from youth? The one that had as many variations as the number of places it was played. Well, tagging, a way to identify different information online, is kind of the same. When I save something in my online bookmarks or I add information to my Evernote notes, I have…
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…
