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Did You Know? (version 1 and/or version 2) has now been seen by over 10 million people online. This is the post that went viral in February 2007. In November […]
Listen to this post! To date we've had 132 education bloggers submit responses for our education blogosphere survey. If you haven't yet participated and would like to avoid being labeled […]
Listen to this post! Every week day I receive the ASCD SmartBrief in my e-mail inbox. Usually it's an excellent overview of some key stories that are happening in K-12 […]
Listen to this post! A couple of days ago Network World had a story on the latest generation of GPS technologies used to track schoolbuses. The Everyday Wireless system that […]
Listen to this post! The Minneapolis Star Tribune has a story on CASTLE's Principal Blogging Project today: http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938355.html http://www.startribune.com/1592/story/938358.html Read it while it's hot off the press. I think Star […]
Listen to this post! As promised, here are the results of the Dangerously Irrelevant 2007 Education Blogosphere Survey... I made a short Flash video describing the general findings (or you […]
Listen to this post! Here are a couple of recent (and great) posts from Seth Godin: On becoming the (January 15) We tried everything (January 12) How is your organization […]
Listen to this post! I rarely write about technology tools here, but I ran across two web tools recently that I think may be useful for bloggers... Cite Bite. Input […]
Listen to this post! Dan Meyer is a dynamic young math teacher for the San Lorenzo Valley Unified School District. He totally gets it when it comes to assessment. Here […]
Listen to this post! Pete Reilly's excellent post should be required reading for school administrators worried about online safety issues. I've blogged about this issue before, notably here and here. […]
Listen to this post! Thanks to Seth Godin's blog , today I found this very cool resource for teachers and students looking for different visual ways to represent information: A […]
Listen to this post! Last October I announced a bold new CASTLE initiative. Because of what was clearly a lack of presence by school principals in the blogosphere, we set […]
Listen to this post! Over the past couple of days, David Warlick has posted several times about the decreasing need for students to memorize discrete, unconnected factual bits of academic […]
Listen to this post! This semester I taught the College's School and Society class to our preservice teachers. This foundations course acquaints students with the historical, philosophical, sociological, and political […]
Listen to this post! Will Richardson blogged yesterday about a comment by Daniel Kinnaman, publisher of District Administration magazine, regarding K-12 education: Alarmingly, there may be no sector of society […]
Listen to this post! David Warlick blogged a bit about this idea last June, but I thought it was interesting that one of the most popular articles in 2006 from […]
Listen to this post! Hear ye! Hear ye! All education bloggers are hereby invited and encouraged to... complete the short and completely unscientific, but hopefully interesting, education blogosphere survey; forward […]
Listen to this post! It's a new year: a good time to reflect on my past 4+ months of blogging. It's been quite an adventure. My learning has been exponential […]
Listen to this post! Know thyself and Nothing in excess (inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi) Since I've now been 'tagged' with the 5 Things […]
Listen to this post! The December 2006 issue of NASSP Bulletin has an article by Drs. Chien Yu and Vance A. Durrington, assistant professors at Mississippi State University, on practicing […]