The Joys of Percolating

At long last, I am once again full of ideas.Not well-organized ideas, but ideas.

I have been home sick for the past day and a half. Not deathly ill, just too feverish to manage fifth grade students. It’s been the first time I’ve had in months to just putter on my computer. I tended to […]

Wiki News Update

I still haven’t figured out how I will integrate wikis into my current curriculum. However, the tools I can use keep getting better.

I heard from David Weekly yesterday. He’s the founder of the elegant PBWiki. He says that as of last night, “we have bumped up pbwiki users’ upload space to 10MB for free […]

From Angst to Action

I am full of angst. I am working full-out, but not even remotely teaching the way I want to be teaching.

Re-entry into US public school teaching has been jarring and disheartening.Be it real or imagined, I feel a crushing pressure to teach to the test, teach what is familiar to the parents of my […]

Web 2.0 Clearly Explained

A few days ago I was stumbling around in my head, trying to get a handle Web 2.0. Then a friend sent me to the O’Reilly website to read Tim O’Reilly’s article What is Web 2.0. Even if you are already familiar with the term, this easy to read article clearly lays out the paradigm […]

One More Person Who Thought Different

Quite a few years back, Apple Computer ran its “Think Different” campaign. I was fortunate enough to get posters of the campaign and they are still hanging in the classroom I taught in back them– the current user refuses to give them back because they are such great posters.

The posters featured large, black and […]

A Flickr of Wikis

I’m supposed to be contacting parents who haven’t yet signed up for conferences.I’m supposed to be looking over the pile of collected assignments.I’m supposed to be repairing my dodgy gradebook.But I’m not.

I was all ready to go to bed, too tired to dig into any of those projects. But first, I checked my Bloglines […]