Should unlimited access between teachers and students through social media be restricted? School administrators acknowledge that the vast majority of teachers use social media appropriately. But they also say they are increasingly finding compelling reasons to limit teacher-student contact. School boards in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia …
As I share my family Christmas traditions with others, I am often met with a confusing look and the question, “Now how did that get started?” You don’t think about how different your family traditions of beliefs sound to others until you try to start explaining it. I’ve had the same feeling in trying to …
If you are continuing to use Blogger as your blogging platform, you should consider that you don’t own your own blog. If you try to customize by using html coding, you’ll run into this: If you take a look at your code, you’ll notice that it looks somewhat like regular HTML and CSS, but also …
1. You are a professional. You need a professional blogging platform. 2. Flash Player slows loading time. Each second that your blog takes to load loses you readers. 3. Flash doesn’t work on IOS devices, which means that you are losing readers that depend heavily on mobile devices for their reading (like me!). 4. It’s …
Have you been in faculty meetings or talking to a colleague about technology integration and heard these words? The interesting part about these interactions for me is that same people that contest and resist changing and trying something new would come to me for tech support for their personal benefits, but wouldn’t do the same …
In my church history class last night, we were discussing the Council of Chalcedon. The 27 tenets that the council concluded were important were all in response to what had already happened. They were already behind and their decisions were already out dated. If you are trying to implement internet policies and acceptable use policies …
I found this jewel from Arne Duncan’s twitter feed: Witham is an example of a rising number of public school teachers across the country taking extra jobs to make ends meet. . . .US public school teachers in 2010 earned 12 percent less weekly that those in other professions with comparable education and experience. So …
I’ve been talking for a while about the potential shift that public schools are about to experience. It was based on a gut feeling and a lot of reading. I’ve been misinterpreted as saying that I don’t believe in public schools, but I do. I just see what’s coming. I know that if teachers and …
These are the kind of stories that warm your heart at this time of year: Howard announced Thursday that his Ryan Howard Family Foundation would be donating athletic sportswear valued at $1.15 million to the school district of Philadelphia. Fifty-seven high schools will benefit from the donation by receiving athletic footwear and uniforms that match …
Many schools not only are incorporating Internet safety into lesson plans but also shifting their focus from the pervasive “stranger danger” message typically given to young computer users. The idea, says Principal Chris Lehmann of Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy, is teaching students to be better “digital citizens.” But it’s not just about being digital citizenship. …
