Teach42

Found via Lee Speers blog
It seems that a teacher in Seattle decided to take a stand against the the state’s standardized test, WASL. Quite simply, he refused to administer it. While it seems he has gained the admiration of his peers and many administrators for his actions, he was still suspended without pay […]

Hall forwarded this article on to me, which fits perfectly into so many presentations that I do. Essentially, reporters bounced around the world of Facebook looking at teachers’ profiles, and found them to be on par with middle and high school students. Crude, often inappropriate humor and images, off color jokes and so […]

Welps, this post has nothing to do with PLN’s, education, Web2.0, or technology (are crock pots considered ‘technology’?). But tonight, a friend of mine hosted her annual chili cookoff and for the first time I decided to compete. There were 13 other entries to contend with, but low and behold, when the dust […]

Tony Vincent’s recent post on “How to Cheat” is sure to ruffle a few feathers. He embeds and links to at least a dozen videos describing in detail how to cheat in class.
Oh no! What if the students find it????
*snort*
That was the reaction I got from many when I posted on […]

So after admitting that blogs have slid down in my priority list, and realizing that I just don’t read through them like I used to, I saw a post by Doug Belshaw that struck a chord.
Recommend me three
I unsubscribed from every blog I subscribed to via Google Reader.
Now I’m suffering from information […]

Before I go off on a rant, let me preface this one by saying that I’ve been as guilty of this as anybody else. It’s corrected right now, but as recently as 10 days ago, I was suffering from the same problem that many blogs suffer from. It’s called, “Contact Deficiency Syndrome”. […]

A few years ago I was at the CUE conference with Discovery, and was part of a little scavenger hunt we had at the booth. People had to come up to me and tell me one innovative way they were using technology in order to earn my stamp. By far, the most innovative […]

UPDATE: After discussing the Teachermate with its creator and doing a hands on demonstration, I have posted a follow up to this post. Please be sure to read that as well.

I’ve often been told that if it sounds too good to be true… it is. A classic example is the new Teachermate PC […]

I think I speak for most educators when I saw that I was floored when I read this article in the NY Times. I mean, every teacher in the school will be making $125,000 a year and the principal will be making $90,000 a year. Everything is upside down, dogs and cats are […]

When I first started fleshing out my network, it was all about blogs. I blogged, I read blogs daily, I commented my heart out and spent many a night typing late into the evening trying to get ideas down juuuussstt right.
Soon after that it was podcasting. I listened to podcast every […]

I don’t normally do too many meme’s. Most of them I feel perfectly happy passing on. But when Lee Kolbert tagged me with this one (called me out is more like it), I felt obligated to participate, in part due to the challenge of it. The 3 simple rules are:

Post a picture […]

One of the non-educational blogs that I’m incredibly fond of us the Church of the Customer blog. The co-authors used to live in Chicago and I’ve had the pleasure of having lunch with them a few times. Every time we ever did, I walked away with new ideas and perspectives about communities and […]

As a teacher/techcoordinator, I was thrilled to go to IL-TCE every year. That was my ‘treat’, and the only conference I could count on. If grant money came through, a trip to NECC was an extra special treat.
In the last month, I have been to FETC, an internal Discovery conference, hosted […]

Ever go two months without posting a blog post? And then you start feeling a ton of pressure to write something really good explaining why you haven’t? Maybe, some sort of post that summarizes all the things you’ve been up to, why you’ve been SO busy, and justify your lack of activity?
Of course, […]

Somebody I know created a page for me on WikiPedia, which I thought was pretty interesting. I suppose I could have gone in there and fleshed it out some more, but it was one of those things i just never got around to.
After seeing a tweet by Darren Drapper regarding his difficulty […]