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. …
Yesterday in class, my laptop died. We have 30 minutes left in class and with our final quickly approaching, I didn’t want to miss important information. I use Evernote for all of my class notes, so I knew that I could use my mobile to pick up right where I left off, but I hesitated. …
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 …
I never knew that some of our family Christmas traditions were so unusual until I recounted them to some friends and realized we were the only family that had these traditions. During my student teaching experience, I walked into our holiday program and was surrounded by an hour and a half of traditions that I …
