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

Dean Shareski posed a very valid question yesterday at his Ideas and Thoughts Blog regarding the use of the XO laptop and other emerging technologies in the classroom setting. Purely from a personal standpoint for my family, I don’t see myself purchasing one for my children. With computers/laptops to spare, one more tech item and [...]

Last week I shared a Neverending Tale wiki project I’m working on with a fourth grade class (http://mrflynn.pbwiki.com). Tuesday when I introduced the wiki to the students, we advised the students that everything wouldn’t be ready for them to begin until they returned back from winter holidays.
So what do I find when I go to [...]

A couple years ago, my media specialist shared with me a link to “The Neverending Tale“. At the time it was up and running, I’d have to say it was late 2004. At the time, I wasn’t ready to embrace its use. Having really just made the jump into educational technology.
Earlier this week I came [...]

First things first. A game. Who sings the song that I’ve entitled my blog post after today. Winner with the first reply gets a….my undying devotion?
My head’s been all over the place over the last week. I’ll honestly say that I refrained from even opening up my dashboard page for fear that I would type [...]

For those of you that follow my Twitter feed (Tom_Turner) you will have noticed some very disheartening comments being passed along. I understand that my current position is a combination technology integration specialist and network/hardware administrator. Unfortunately for me, more time is spent working on the hardware/network infrastructure of my job description. Is it a [...]

This post is a testament to how far behind I am on my blog reading. Danielle Abernethy (tie4teachers) shared some of her personal thoughts and experiences with her son Joey’s sleep issues and how it relates to school.
Let me say that I’m very blessed to call Danielle not only a colleague, but a close friend. [...]