You are really in three different worlds while working in marketing, teaching and pursuing seminary, aren’t you? I’ve gotten this response quite often this fall and I can understand the initial reaction, but we don’t live in an compartmentalized world. I would argue that we never have. With my History 5 students last year, I …
The mechanic monotony of the windshield wipers of the numerous cars across the parking lot reminded me that I can’t sit still. I know that most teachers I talk to think that they way I see marketing and teaching’s inevitable merge as inconsequential, but I don’t and I won’t. Else, this is the future of …
There was a trend on Twitter identified not by a hash tag, but rather a yellow sign placed in the bottom left corner of your Twitter profile picture that looked a little like this: I understand that this provides a continuity and a marketing symbol for the movement, but the Save our Schools March was …
In preparing for my first Affiliate Summit, Geekcast has become an essential weekly podcast. The discussion this week started with business cards and whether they were old school or not. They argue that the card can help you recall someone’s name or company: What was that guy’s company name? The card will help me …
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 …
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 …
Sam Harrelson has been blogging about the way that mobile devices impacted Cyber Monday sales. Turns out that mobile devices aren’t only impacting the world of marketing. They are also increasing literacy development in children: The research, to be published in the Journal of Computer Assisted Learning next month, found evidence of a “significant contribution …
The continuing question for teachers is do you cover more less deeply or cover less more deeply? It’s a hard question to answer especially within the context of the high-stakes testing emphasis. Will Richardson is trying to challenge his own thinking in his post What Do We Absolutely Need to “Teach”: [W]e could probably do …
