My Squirrelly View of Education

I know that this should have been posted yesterday, but I didn’t get around to it until today. I could blame it on the MACUL 2011 conference that I attended last week, but the truth is I had to do a lot of thinking about what the National Writing Project what it’s impact has been [...]

It’s time for me to come clean. I am NOT an original thinker. My husband probably won’t be surprised, but I know a number of colleagues who will be surprised.  I am able to maintain that creative, inventive image because my district colleagues don’t frequent the same digital spaces that I do. What I am is [...]

(note: Since publishing this post, I have put a wiki together that goes into more depth about Tweetdeck) As Jim and I started discussing this 13 More Things class way back in January, the first thing we added was Twitter. Now after viewing the Twitter resources and setting up your account, you are probably wondering “What [...]

Image by ohmann alianne via Flickr I am a huge fan of summer vacation. Lots of time for me to read what I want, enjoy the peace a quiet of home, bother the son and the husband…. well, you get the ideas. I always begin the summer with all sorts of ideas of what I [...]

In my pre-web 2.0 world Professional Development (PD) could be basically be broken down into three categories: Image via Wikipedia Local Professional Development: A boring sage-on-the-stage, supposedly “inspirational,” district inservice. My main accomplishment was getting lots of papers graded. Countywide Professional Development Day: More conference like. Some years great, some years terrible. I got many [...]