After reading this article in USA Today, I thought of road rage as reasonable analogy. The article talks about some teachers blogging anonymously and making personal attacks and criticisms about teachers and schools. In the same way that drivers can hide behind the windshield and metal of their vehicles and yell and shout at other drivers, so do these teachers. I...

I’ve had the opportunity to share the “news” about social software/web 2.0/Read Write Web (choose your favourite term)  to some groups other than classroom teachers. In the past month I’ve done two workshops for our provincial teachers’ association. One to the local teacher association groups and the other to the special subject...

I’m soliciting all you geeks out there for some recommendations. Currently our school division website is using Mambo as it’s CMS. It certainly has a lot of great features and components. As a new division we’re hoping to use one CMS and create 45 school websites using a single instance of the CMS rather than having separate installs for each...

I sat in a meeting of teachers today when someone in the crowd made reference to a clause about consultants and made the statement that she felt “there were too many consultants anyway”. This made me upset for two reasons: I wouldn’t want to suggest, espescially in public that I felt a school or some other area of the division was overstaffed. More...

Chip Camden compares blogging to jazz. I like this analogy because I like jazz and part of why I like it is because it’s so diverse….you never know what to expect. Also, I’m quick to skip a song if it’s not working for me but often I go back and listen again and decide it’s not bad…there’s something about it that...