Stop Ignoring The Zombie: Bring Research Back From The Dead
I’m not a big fan of The Walking Dead: it reminds me too much of certain practices in teaching and education. Students march from stage to stage of their educational […]
Category Archives: Tech Tools
Don’t Forget Chekhov’s Gun
She can barely breathe. She just watched an entire squad of marines relentlessly slaughtered by unstoppable aliens. Now, unarmed, she discovers that the fourteen foot queen of the alien brood, […]
What’s in your EDU Go Bag?
Twenty years in the classroom. Twenty years of making lesson plans, hoarding articles, videos, books, and ideas. This summer I started going through my cabinets and files and making the […]
Rescuing the Rat in a Blender: Saving Teens, Teachers, and Social Media
I was fifteen-and-a-half and hadn’t run away from home yet. After a year of Catholic high school I felt lost and confused. My parents had originally pulled me out of […]
Create magical experiences using these 3 lessons from Harry Potter
Harry Potter succeeds as a story because it powerfully mixes magic and love: these two words when combined with the latest technology tools (Padlet, ThingLink, IFTTT) can easily create a […]
Shooting “womp rats”: Why trying something BIG fuels innovation and cooperation
Wow… edcampHOME. Were you there? I hope you stopped by even for a few minutes to watch the adventure unfold. An experience like #edcampHOME deserves a big metaphor and while […]
Master of the Flying Guillotine: Three keys to KILLING boring professional development
Let’s face it. If you have just one arm pretty much anything you do is going to stick in people’s head. Some may even call you heroic for doing things […]
A Feedly User Guide: Great for following student blogs and replacing Google Reader
So you have a student blogging project and it’s overwhelming to keep track of them all? So you are going to miss Google Reader and you are looking for a […]
