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

Oh the sounds of summer…The crack of the bat (or ping if you’re talking about Little League). The pop of a ball being caught in the pocket of a leathery glove. The swishing sound of feet gliding across orange clay. These are sounds I grew up with for 15 years. My true formative [...]

Yesterday I looked at the first part of play, that being structured. Today I will tackle the second form of play, unstructured. There are several avenues that children can partake in unstructured play. The conventional method is through recess. That time where teachers usually take their children outside and allow their students to [...]

I’m still reeling over my NECC experience. Not because of the sessions that were offered, not because of the enormous amount of people that converged upon San Antonio, but because of the many people, most of them like-minded about the edtech community, that I was able to converse with. But this is not a [...]

My negative NECC karma continues. Was a year ago now in Atlanta that I was unable to blog during my first NECC experience due to edublogs going through some growing pains. That negative karma continues this year with the airport card in my macbook going kapoot on me. Thanks to Teryl Magee for letting me [...]

First thoughts of NECC so far. And being my second NECC, the experience is just as great as it was last year in HotLanta. I will keep this brief as to work my way back into the regular blogging experience. (Wow, 4 months since my last blog post!!! Sorry guys)

I miss Jenn Wagner. Yea I [...]

This post will jump away from what I normally talk about, education. I normally never touch topics about my family, but this one is definitely worth sharing. As some of you who follow me in Twitter know, my mother in law was diagnosed with breast cancer this past December. She’s made it through surgery in [...]