Right Here, Right Now: Twitter is revolutionizing education worldwide.
Right here, right now, there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now, watching the world wake up from history
I sat in my eighth grade History class listening to Jesus Jones’ “Right Here, Right Now” blasting out of the teacher’s boombox. It was [...]
I spent last night and today at the New York State Middle School Association’s annual conference, located this year in the picturesque town of Watkins Glen, NY. Famous for one of the oldest and fastest road course racetracks in the country, this town is the anti-norm for a conference of this stature; While most [...]
First of all, what the heck am I talking about? uPD? I’ve been using this term for a few months now when I refer to “unofficial Professional Development”. In other words professional development that I won’t get any compensation or credit for, but something that will help me. #edchat is [...]
MathFest, anyone?
Aug 19
This summer has been a summer full of trying new things, so when I got invited to “MathFest 2009” in Portland, Oregon a few weeks ago I excitedly said yes. I was invited by my younger sister Bronlyn, a second-year math professor at Utica College. She had a hotel booked for a week – all [...]
Proud to be… a Beltoid
Jul 18
What the heck is a Beltoid? …and what does it have to do with Educational Technology?
The year was 1999 and I was a junior in the Technology Education program at SUNY Oswego. I was in my second semester at that college and was one of the last students to register for classes. [...]
Leadership Day 2009
Jul 12
The 8 things that I will do as an administrator to encourage and promote educational technology in my school:
I was a NECC Newbie
Jul 4
I really wanted to start my fresh new WordPress blog off with some mind-blowing stuff from my time at the NECC conference this year, but my mind is still going in so many directions I decided to choose one and go with it.
I was a NECC newbie this year – even more so than the [...]
New Blog News
Jul 4
This blog is completely rebuilt from the ground up. My hosting provider “lost” everything last month and I wasn’t going to rebuild the site, but with my new blogging aspirations I decided it needed to live.
The theme I selected was a pretty blue color… and I’ve managed to “greenify” it quite a bit since installing. [...]