Seeking the Wisdom of the Ages Through Our Student’s Eyes

About 2 weeks ago I shared ToonDoo as an online comic creator. Over on the North Florida DEN blog to which I’m a co-author of the question was asked, “This is great, but how can I use this in my class?” A VERY valid question when you think about it. My first response of course [...]

For the most part I’ve made it quite clear that I’m a member of the discovery educator network. I’ve just passed my first year as a member of this community. Even though there have been some shake ups over the last few months, I still believe that the community will persevere. I do believe this [...]

There’s a push in the State of Florida to make every teacher in the state take a reading endorsement class/test to have it added to their certificate. Basically saying, the bearer of this certificate is now an ‘expert’ at teaching reading strategies in the classroom. In the last 2 years of my tenure at my [...]

Hopefully this works. I posted on the North Florida Discovery Educator Network blog about diigo and some of its tools. Tonight I’m using for the first time their blogging feature. So needless to say I’m going to be copy and pasting this into a Microsoft Word document to be on the safe side until I [...]

I’m not in the habit of reading many forwarded messages from colleagues….in fact they usually hit the delete/trash bin as soon as they pop up in Outlook showing I have a new message. I received an email today from my media specialist Kay T. today entitled “You know you are living in 2007 when …” [...]

I’d like to take this time to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope 2007 blesses you as 2006 has blessed me. I’ve been very lucky this year to have attended Discovery’s First Summer National Leadership Conference in Silver Spring, MD. In this 3/4 of a year as a DEN member I’ve had the [...]