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Here’s a short video on Internet safety (hat tip to Kevin Honeycutt). Happy viewing!
Dangerously Irrelevant has been loading slowly lately because it's so video-heavy. I've temporarily removed some other elements in order to speed up loading of the home page. I also vowed to […]
Dissertations are difficult things. There are multiple reasons why most folks don't have one. Here are some words of wisdom that I've heard from others and now pass along to […]
If you’re like me, you have trouble keeping up with all of the great videos that are out there. I love it when others help me separate the wheat from […]
These posts got the most web traffic on my two blogs in October 2010: Dangerously Irrelevant Videos – I hate my teacher 12 videos to spark educators’ thinking We can’t […]
Five online resources worth checking out… Pam Moran’s awesome post on our tendency to admire problems rather than working on solutions. Ryan Bretag asks “How would we react to students if […]
I don’t often blog about specific technology tools, but Adobe’s new Project ROME looks intriguing. Check out the two videos below. It seems like there might be some powerful possibilities […]
Joe Bower asked if showing teachers how to make self-graded quizzes for students using Google Docs had any value. Specifically, he said: When technology is used to accelerate the worst […]
G. V. Ramanathan, emeritus professor of mathematics, statistics, and computer science, asks in the Washington Post: How much math do you really need in everyday life? Ask yourself that -- […]
[cross-posted at The Huffington Post] I've watched this TED talk by Sugata Mitra several times now. And every time I watch it, my brain keeps asking the same question: In […]
The documentary film Waiting for Superman debuted on September 24, 2010. To date it has only grossed $2.7 million at the box office. Just in case you were wondering, however, […]
American students generally have the legal right to express their opinions at home on their free time using non-school computer equipment. So here are a few students expressing their opinions […]
Diana Senechal left the following comment over on a Wall Street Journal article about computers' burgeoning ability to individualize student learning: While "individualized instruction" seems an unequivocal good, perhaps it […]
Many organizational web sites are simply online brochures: static entities with a few pages of information. They’re not interactive. They’re not updated. Once you’ve read the text and seen the […]
Are you an infrequent edublogger? Would you like to blog more but often have writer’s block? If so, check out Melanie Holtsman’s Fall Blog Challenge. She has a list of weekly […]
Corey Dahl (@coreydahlevent) fired his Flip video camera and filmed the event: Happy viewing!
Last December I posted the below video, which is about cyberbullying. Some young people who say they are ‘cutters’ and/or are having suicidal thoughts are leaving comments on the blog post. […]
I am absolutely delighted to announce that the Connected Principals blog is now a member of the CASTLE blog family. Connected Principals currently has 22 school administrators blogging about technology […]
Today's front-page headline on the paper version of USA Today: Has social media gone too far? n Seriously? That's the headline? n When a drunk driver runs over someone, do we blame the […]
In September I had an awesome guest blog series on the topic of what teachers need from administrators. Curt Fuller, a principal in Florida, said I should have a series […]