Work showed this video in an in-service, and I am eager to really move forward with 21st century education, but how do we drag along all the conservative, old-school techophobes?

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This rocks my world. My favorite messenger bag made a computer case for one of the coolest computers in the world, the MacBook Air.

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We always make the kids put away phones, ipods, etc… but should we? Today in school the kids were studying for the rhetorical schemes quiz, and most had printed pages from Google docs where we had the definitions saved, and some had nothing, but this one kid was sitting in the back of the room [...]

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The other evening I participated in a monthly Cyber Salon, which is a group of like minded technophiles who teach in secondary schools and higher education. This meeting held up north included Alan, Shelley, Biray, Alisa and me. I walked into this swanky sports grill after 5pm on a Friday to find these four with [...]

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Recently one of my administrators told me to check out the PBS special called “Growing Up Online”. After spending about an hour streaming this off my MacBookPro, I wrote this post on my personal blog.

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Last night I asked my host to move this site from a test subfolder to the main directory after I tried to do so unsuccessfully myself. We spent about 45 minutes on text chat trying to make it work, and he was very patient. Eventually he jacked into the database and edited out the subfolder [...]

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Went to the Language & Literacy Conference at Arizona State University today where I am sitting in a session called “Storytelling & Writing with the Archetypes & Hero’s Journey”. Even though the presenter was a quack, the discussion of archetype really struck me. As English people, we know there’s no original story. The presented gave [...]

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My mother sent me a link to the Kindle video, and I had heard about it on my drive into to work on BuzzOut Loud. This is a small hand held digital reader, which downloads books, blogs, and other text for your reading pleasure anywhere anytime, as long as you are online. Anytime someone brings [...]

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