Angela, Barbara tagged me and I’ll oblige.  I thought I had already done one of these but I guess it’s slightly different. With the amount of sharing I do, I’m not sure if there are 7 things people don’t know about me, but knowing I’ve likely broke the TMI rule several times, here goes: 1. I never planned to go into education. I...

William Chamberlain is doing something rather unique. He offers a live stream of his elementary school classroom 24/7.  I heard about this about 6 months ago and finally had a chance to talk with Bill about how the idea started and what the impact has been. Image: 100_2343 http://www.flickr.com/photos/wmchamberlain/3098018149/ Listen...

For my pre-service teacher course I created this survey as my final evaluation.  15 out of 18 students responded.  Given they did not know it was an online and for most, they thought this would be basically a “how to use software” class, the results were fairly pleasing.  By the way, I loved how Google forms created a nice summary of my...

It’s been a while since I’ve done a “how to” style workshop. I’ve purposely shied away from them instead trying to move the conversations more towards, “what might you do that makes a difference for kids?”  I’ve been referred to by a local high school principal as “Big Idea Dean”. I can’t say for...

Add this article to your delicious feed, then email it to every leader and teacher you know and you will have accomplished a lot today. Will tipped me off to this article by Mark Pesce and it captures so much of what is critical and important in understanding what education must do to remain relevant.  You need to read it but I’ll give you a few snippets of...