January 2012
A Picture a Day →
Sunrise over the Potomac River, day 1 of 2012. In past years I’ve seen people make a commitment to post a new picture every day for a year (some stayed with it, some dropped out) and…
Jan 2nd
Tips and Tools for Making an Award-Winning PSA →
“To fulfill the promise of digital citizenship, Americans must acquire multimedia communication skills that include the ability to compose messages using language, graphic design, images, and…
Jan 1st
Elearning and global competency #flatclass... →
Whole School: Sustainability: Global citizenship teaching resources - TES Tons of global citizenship ideas for your school. As you work to reach the world, these maps, images, and lesson…
Jan 1st
December 2011
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
Set Up Your Kindle Fire for Tiny Tablet Awesomeness A handle Kindle Fire set up guide from Gizmodo. tags: mlearning education ebook kindlefire The Next Mark Zuckerberg…
Dec 27th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
11 Tech Factors That Changed Education in 2011 TRENDS: 11 Tech Factors That Changed Education in 2011 via @mashable http://t.co/10ZTBIZZ #edtech #education tags: edtech education
Dec 25th
Happy Holidays from Scottmerrick Oh and his Human,... →
Happy Holidays!
Dec 24th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
Made In A Free World - Slavery Footprint This survey is designed to educate and activate you. With the size of my house and the fact I have a lot of electronics 83 slaves”work” for me…
Dec 23rd
Holiday Desktop Backgrounds from WordPress.com →
Dec 20th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
Search - Hashonomy - Social bookmarking via Twitter As I was researching for the hashtag for ending slavery, I came across hashonomy. See how this site works. I found the searching clunky…
Dec 20th
More Schools Starting to Implement CrossTec EMS IT... →
Dec 19th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
Langwitches Blog Julie and I spent some time with Silvia Tolisano talking about global collaboration, telling the story of how the flat classroom started and why we kept it going and the…
Dec 18th
New Home Base: Seattle, WA →
The next decision of the next chapter of my life has been made. Next year my wife and I will move to Seattle, WA and be based out of there for whatever is next for us. View from…
Dec 16th
Announcing the 2011 Winners – Congrats to All! →
Announcing the 2011 Winners – Congrats to All!
Dec 15th
What I Bought in 2011 →
It’s that time when like to tell about the gadgets I bought throughout the year. Just like I did for 2009 and 2010, I give you some of my favorite purchases. I did not include Apple…
Dec 15th
Edublog 2011 Winners Announced →
Lots of great winners announced in this year’s 2011 Edublog Awards. Still wish more people voted but it does go up every year. Thank you to those you nominated and voted for me. You put me in the…
Dec 15th
It Kahn Be Done Better →
It seems everyone is wild about Khan Academy, offering it up as an example of how to revolutionize education, especially Bill Gates who has contributed a small part of his money to the project. …
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
12 Amazing Ways to Teach During the Crazy Days of... →
Some teachers are tempted to be babysitters during the holidays when, in fact, you can get some powerful teaching moments in your classroom. Take time to be creative and integrate holiday-themed…
Dec 13th
“No Child Left Off Line” – Whoohoo, California is... →
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of joining my fellow California K12 High Speed Network Advisory Committee members down at the Capitol for a meeting with our State Superintendent of Public…
Dec 12th
Clone an iPad or iPod touch →
Melissa Dills is an Ohio kindergarten teacher and has a blog, Adventures of iPads in Kindergarten. Melissa recently contacted me with this question: I currently have 5 ipads in my…
Dec 11th
Google+ Reflection →
Google+ has been open now for a while and the up-take of the new social-networking site seems expodential. There are already over 1000 people who have added me to a circle by far my quickest…
Dec 9th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
TES Christmas by [?] - Download TES Christmas in the iTunes App Store iPhone iPod Touch version - math game for kids that is free. Why not download this for the car and let them play it a…
Dec 9th
New Themes: AutoFocus, Imbalance 2, and Reddle →
Dec 8th
How to Set Up Gmail for School iPads and iPods →
One challenge for teachers with students using devices like iPad and iPod touch is collecting student work. Unfortunately, there is not one consistent way for apps to export what a user…
Dec 4th
Virginia Tech Prof to Skype with Burma's... →
Tomorrow, Monday, December 7 at 7pm Eastern Standard Virginia Tech professor and his World Regions class will be interviewing Burmese resistance leader,Aung Sun Sun Kyi, via Skype. Boyer…
Dec 4th
10 Ways to be Wonderful: Happy Birthday Kip! →
The greatest learning experiences of my life have never been on mountaintops. They have almost always been in closets, in holes, and in the mud. Today, my incredible husband, Kip turns…
Dec 2nd
It’s getting cold in here →
Dec 2nd
November 2011
Some Things Never Change. Unfortunately. →
Daring Fireball’s quote of the day is one of my favorites from a great writer, Issac Asimov, and one that I commented on in a post from more than five years ago. There is a cult of ignorance…
Nov 29th
Holiday Ponderings from a Panting Mom →
The holidays arrive and I wonder how I’ll survive. So many things to do how will I every get through? Grading period ending and holidays are pending. Red rover, red rover, send her…
Nov 28th
QR Codes – A whole new set of teaching & learning... →
From websites to newspapers and magazines to museums, pretty much anywhere I look, I see QR codes popping up. So one of my goals this school year is to organize by grade level and subject area…
Nov 26th
Black Friday sale: free Custom Design with any... →
Nov 26th
12 Ways to Provoke Supportive Learning... →
I wrote a blog post last week about home conversations about school. It ended with a question of sorts, I wonder how a school or classroom might start that dinner table conversation by…
Nov 26th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
acrosstheglobe - home This across the globe wiki was created as a result of the “Create the Future” workshop in Japan in 2010 as a result of the work of Kim Cofino and Julie Lindsay. This…
Nov 25th
3 Best 2011 NWP~NCTE Conference Sessions I Did Not... →
Traveling to Chicago for the 2011 Annual National Writing Project (NWP) and National Council for Teachers of English (NCTE) Conferences was not in my budget this year, so I was delighted by the…
Nov 24th
Code is Poetry, CSS is Art →
Nov 24th
Prisoners of Time →
I submit this for your morning/afternoon/evening read: Have we learned nothing? In 1994, The National Education Commission on Learning and Time published PRISONERS OF TIME To quote from…
Nov 23rd
How Much Longer Will a Degree Mean Something? →
This thought has been rolling around in my head for a couple of weeks now. How much longer will a college degree mean something? What has me thinking is the news I have been…
Nov 23rd
Flat Classroom is 5 years old today! Join the... →
Today, November 22 is a big day in my life. The birthday of something big for me and for others who have joined into this. There are days that change everything. Wedding days….
Nov 23rd
More Custom Headers, Color Schemes, & Theme... →
Nov 22nd
The Nation: Online Learning Buying America’s... →
Nov 21st
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
Jen’s Gems Primary Apps A long list of primary education iPad apps from Jen, an educator from Australia. tags: Education iPad Learning with ‘e’s: Tools of the trade …
Nov 21st
Three Things Schools Should not Drop →
In a time of continued budget cuts, I would argue that schools should not drop: Image from http://tattoartistmagazine.files 1. Spelling – Students need to recognize when spelling is…
Nov 20th
New Themes: Anthem and Luscious →
Nov 19th
Why I love this generation →
Nothing more to say. Created by Benya Kraus 10th Grade Student at ISB and CEO of Kraus Productions
Nov 19th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
All About SOPA, the Bill That Wants to Cripple Your Internet This is an issue we should be studying, talking about, and weighing in on. With the blocking that this proposes, say that you…
Nov 19th
Drag & Drop Media Uploader & Flyout Dashboard... →
Nov 17th
Virtual Learning in a Crisis →
Disclosure: The following thoughts/reflections are not necessary the views of ISB or its community It has been a few weeks since we were in a virtual school situation here in Bangkok….
Nov 17th
Daily Education and Technology News for Schools... →
Nominations Open – The 2011 Edublog Awards are on! | The Edublog Awards 2011 Edublog awards are open. Yes, I think these are important. It helped me a lot in knowing that what I said…
Nov 17th
Writing in the Real World →
In his weekly Washington Pos column (aka a blog entry that actually gets printed in on paper), Jay Mathews begins with a series of definitive statements about writing instruction, never offering…
Nov 17th
So What did You Do in School Today? →
Look what we did in school today (cc) nordicshutter It has been a while since I’ve written, though it’s not for lack of anything to say. I’ve been re-strategizing some…
Nov 16th