Following up on yesterday's post, many school districts have taken great care to define the essential duties and responsibilities of employees' jobs (typically for legal, rather than educational, purposes). For […]

It's a new year and I think it's time to revive the Wednesday Report of the Week (ROTW)! I've made a public Google Notebook page for those of you who […]

My colleague, Dr. David Quinn, and I were invited to come help with the ASB Unplugged 1:1 laptop conference for international schools in late February. We'll be working with the […]

I do a lot of other writing besides blogging for Dangerously Irrelevant. As some of you may have noticed, I recently added a Publications button to this blog (on the […]

Greg Farr makes me laugh ‘til my sides hurt. That’s probably the best endorsement I can give this Texas principal blogger. Greg also blogs for LeaderTalk (and I encourage you […]

I received the e-mail below from yet another person who can't access my blog at school . How is CASTLE supposed to help school administrators kickstart their schools into the […]

On Thursday I will be the speaker for the Lower Hudson (NY) Regional Information Center's Technology Leadership Institute. I'm not quite sure how I got included in the all-star lineup, […]

[cross-posted at the TechLearning blog] n The nation's first presidential primary is rapidly approaching here in the state of Iowa. I thought it might be appropriate to blog about new […]

One of the things we do at CASTLE is try and expose administrators to modern technology tools with which they may be unfamiliar. For example, if we want principals to […]

There are just a couple of days left if you want to submit your question ideas for the 2008 education blogosphere survey. If you have any suggestions, please send them […]

As I mentioned last week, each Friday I'm going to try to highlight a blog that I think deserves a bigger audience (DABA). The first recipient in 2008 of the […]

Courtesy of Clay Burell, here are three great videos from Barry Bachenheimer: 42 180 1620 I've added all three to the Moving Forward wiki!

I just finished reading David Pogue 's fascinating article on the copyright morality of today's youth (thanks for the link, Ian Jukes !). Here's the key quote: Right now, the […]

I've blogged about this before: Key question The aggregate impact of individual choices If you took away technology but can anyone else think of an employment sector other than K-12 […]

Last year I put out a call for bloggers to participate in the first annual education blogosphere survey. I reported the results several weeks later and reactions were generally positive. […]

I received this e-mail earlier in the week: My name is [anonymous]. I am a Library Media Director at [high school] in [city, state]. We are a small community, who […]

I don't often blog about specific technology tools, but I just ran across a service called Kwout (pronounced 'quote'). It lets you quickly take a screen shot and then post […]

After a hiatus of several months, I am pleased to announce CASTLE's re-launch of At the Schoolhouse Gate, a group blog dedicated to legal and policy issues in K-12 schools. […]

Clay Burell has done a masterful jobnof launching and publicizing Students 2.0,nthe new student group blog. It has been less than a month since the launchnof Students 2.0 and it […]