I always look forward to December 5th for two reasons. It happens to be my birthday, but more importantly, it’s also the Day of the Ninja! It’s the day when everybody, everywhere gets to… well… act like a ninja I guess! I’ve always been a big fan of ninjas. I watched a ton of ninja movies, including the Chris Farley classic Beverly Hills Ninja, and have read quite a few books featuring ninjas.

I began to wonder, what sits at the corner of EdTech Boulevard and Ninja Street? And with that, let’s take a look at some of the best Ninja resources for educators!

If we’re talking about Ninja education, I think we need to start with the Dean. Dean Dad is the Dean of a community college and came up with a list of what the Pre-Ninja program would look like at his school. He also expanded that to what the pre-reqs were, graduation requirements and that’s just the beginning. A fine place to start for any budding Technology Ninja.

Image via WikipediaSpeaking of Technology Ninjas, I’d be remiss if I didn’t pay homage to the original Technology Ninja, Tom Woodward. You may know him form his layman’s blog, Bionic Teaching, which just happens to be nominated at the EduBlog Awards. But once he dons his handy Ninja mask, he becomes the Technology Ninjawho is there to silently assassinate your technology problems! Unfortunately he hasn’t posted for quite a while there, but there’s still quite a lot to learn from.

I say that he’s the original, because he seems to have been supplanted by the EdTech Ninja. Who IS the EdTech Ninja? Nobody knows! Could it be Tom under a new guise? Or perhaps he’s a colleague of yours! He could be anybody because Ninjas are so stealthy and sneaky. What I do know is that there’s an incredible amount of information there for any educator, but especially those looking for Smartboard tips and tricks.

Finally, I wanted to share a video that I found. Student Ninjas at Metz Middle School won an honorable mention at the Shortie awards for this video. In it, “Ninjas must use their knowledge of inequalities to know what to do when hit by a negative!” Enjoy!

Hope your Day of the Ninja is full of sneaky fun!

• The Technology Ninja tackles the tough ones
• The Bionic Teacher gets down with his inner ninja
• I have so much to learn.
• It’s not about teaching, it’s about learning.
• It’s not an assignment, it’s a creative brief

Steve Dembo
12/5/2008

New blog post: Celebrating Day of the Ninja in education! http://tinyurl.com/EduNinja Beware, it’s a sneak, deadly blog post!

Chris Champion
12/5/2008

Ok, so this is a bit silly, but I love to use “Ask a Ninja” to intro my podcasting classes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmss2lg-ug

Chris Champion´s most recent blog post.. Weekly Diigo Posts (weekly)

Lee Ann Spillane
12/5/2008

Love the ninja thread and links! A belated happy birthday to you.

Tom
12/6/2008

It has been a while since the technology ninja. You have a good memory.

Since I left middle school there seemed less of a motivation to use the character but I do miss doing that. I seem to be doing more and more odd stuff to keep myself entertained so maybe that’s worth doing. I just got a new work camera so the ninja might re-appear in 1080p HD.

Tom´s most recent blog post.. Zombie Vocab – Castigate

Brett Harvey
12/6/2008

Happy late Birthday Steve. I had turkey and pie on mine (Nov. 27th). One of my favorite Onion videos is the Ninja parade: http://www.theonion.com/content/video/ninja_parade_slips_through_town

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