Category: Personal Blog

  • New Wordle for the webpage

  • Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post

    Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post. Kimiya Haghighi, 17, had a prose problem. As much as her teachers preached concise writing, her sentences remained long and overwrought — the words poured out, unpunctuated, one after another. Then Aubrey Ludwig, her 11th-grade English teacher at Langley…

  • ReBlog of Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Friending 101 for Schools

    This is an excerpt from CoolCat Teacher’s Blog on Facebook and its new reality in the classroom space. I highly recommend everyone follow the pingback at the bottom of my excerpt and read the entire article. Great work on a complicated and touchy subject in some schools. Facebook has added an incredible complexity to our…

  • Book Review: The Hobbit

    The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien My rating: 5 of 5 stars I first read this novel in March of 1991. I had to do a book report about a novel I had never read. On a whim, I asked the Librarian, at the County Branch near our house, what was good…

  • Japan: WorldVision call for Donations

    If you would like to help the earthquake devastation in Japan, Haiti, New Zealand, or Chile, this is the organization I, and millions of others, have trusted in the past. All monies given for relief are sent to relief, nothing is held back for leadership or organizational cost. Please give if you can or just…

  • ReBlog Ars Tehcnica: Woz tells teachers to us tech!

    For years, i have been a fan of Steve Wozniak, the Woz. Even though he doesn’t call the shots in Cupertino, lots of people in the industry look to him for advice. After reading about this interview I was pleasantly surprised. Woz, Apple, and education make for a great Combination During a conference for educators…