I will be facilitating two workshops, essentially identical though different ;) , on integrating technology into secondary school classrooms. Specifically Language Arts, History, and Science. When it comes to workshops, teachers want practical ideas that they can use in their classrooms so I will be organizing the workshops by practice first and then filling the [...]

In writing a comment for Mr Gonzalez’s post about his plans to use iPads in Science, I did a little google search on iPad’s wifi issues because, to be honest, I don’t trust iPad’s network connection enough yet to use it in a classroom. I was surprised to see, at the bottom of the first [...]

Image licensed from CagleCartoons.com copyright Daryl Cagle, All Rights Reserved. I’ve been seeing this image more and more lately, each time I smirk, shake my head. It provokes a number of thoughts: beginning with, defensively…. Why is it ok to yell at teachers? Why blame the teacher for a student’s failure? How/when did this accountability [...]

From Dea Conrad-Curry at Notions and Potions in Thinking deeply about the seeds we plant: …I was thinking of how farmers and teachers are alike. They both are responsible to nurture valuable commodities. Their work is both science and art. They both possess intrinsic passion, returning day in and day out to work over which [...]

As always happens just after the end of the school year, I am finding I have more time (and guilt-free time, at that!) to read what others are writing. Here are some of the blogs I have found over the last few days, written by people I am looking forward to reading again. L’espace à [...]