A Video to Start Your Year

I’ve seen links to this video zooming around the Twitterverse all weekend so I finally took a look. If you haven’t seen it, it is worth your time as well.

Blog Awards

Doug Johnson over at the Blue Skunk Blog honored me with a blog award. Now I have the good fortune to be able to award it to seven other bloggers.

I suspect Clarence Fisher has already received this, but I don’t remember seeing it on his blog, so here goes. Remote Access is one […]

"Oil Can"

Anyone recognize that quote? I’m pretty sure it’s what the Tin Man said to Dorothy when she first meets him in the Wizard of Oz movie.

I’m feeling like I should be uttering those words to readers of this blog. For a variety of reasons and excuses, I’ve done very little posting for a long […]

Blogger Play

Think of the times you’ve been home sick. Too sick to do any school work or even read, but you’ve slept for 14 hours and need to be awake for a while. You turn to TV and are amazed to find that despite have 70 channels, there’s nothing to watch.

Your salvation has arrived from […]

Movies or Essays?

Still making movies with kids. Still loving it.

Still slightly amazed at how quickly most kids have taken to it. Makes me think back to last year when my students were writing their DARE essays. Essays are clearly not something my students spent time reading, which made writing them very difficult. In constrast, my […]

BlackBoard Uses in Upper Elementary

I’ve used Blackboard on and off over the years. I’ve taken classes that used it, and I’ve taught courses that used it at the graduate level. At my current school, all classes in the middle and high school divisions must have a Blackboard component to them. If we had to close the school for some […]