My Squirrelly View of Education

Trying to Integrate Technology into HS English & Special Education

A Day Late, but….A Old Dog Can Learn New Tricks

Digital Is..., EMWP, NWP March 21, 2011

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 [...]

Call for a Paradigm Shift in Michigan

Adequate Yearly Progress, Education, High school, Michigan, Michigan Merit Curriculum, NCLB, Professional Development, Special Education April 5, 2009

Karen Jankowski’s April 3rd 2009 post Reaching for the Brass Ring…..of Independence, advances the proposition that it is time to end the war between the remediation and accommodation camps in special education and make Universal Design Principles ubiquitous in order to foster independence. It is time to end the remediation vs. compensation battle and declare [...]

My Two Favorite PD Tools Are My Car and Twitter: My Journey Back from Burnout (Thing 22)

23things, Education, Michigan, Michigan Merit Curriculum, Podcasts, Professional Development, Teacher, Uncategorized, Web 2.0 January 11, 2009

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 [...]

Gettin’ Wiki With It -Thing 17

23things, Creative Commons, Creative Commons License, Education, Podcasts, Student, Teacher, Technology, Web 2.0 January 2, 2009

Of all of the web2.0 tools I’ve explored in this class, developing a wiki has taken the most time.  But before I ramble about my experience, like any good English student, I will answer the three questions that Jim Dornberg posed The main difference between a wiki and a blog is in the way the [...]

Why Kids Think They Attend School (Thing 7)

23things, Education, Education in the United States, High school, Michigan, Michigan Merit Curriculum, Teacher December 22, 2008

One of my favorite bloggers and podcasters is Joe Wood, a middle school science teacher who loves Web 2.0 and struggles with the most effective ways to use this technology in his classes. I really like that he doesn’t have all of the answers. Through his attempts at using technology to become a more effective [...]