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I think Tim is going to regret tagging me. I have really bad taste in films. I’m much more of a book or tv show person for some reason. Mr. Geeky is the movie guy. I was, however, happy to see that Tim’s not the hugest fan of Hitchcock either. I mean, I like his…
Or, as Dr. Crazy puts it, “Excellence without Money.” I’ve appreciated greatly the conversation going around the blogosphere that Dr. Crazy links to surrounding the issues of asking faculty to take one for the team. In some cases, that means no raises, cutting travel funds, or increasing class sizes. Sometimes it means giving up a…
Yesterday, I got a request from our school district to fill out a survey about “21st Century Learning.” I did. They asked a lot of the right questions. Although they did ask about whether all children should have laptops, most of their questions were about whether web 2.0 tools should be used and how and…
So far, I’ve made breakfast, two lunches, wrapped two presents, looked up addresses to ship said presents, and collected the recycling for today. It’s going to be a long week. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
Routine, what routine? This week has been filled with disruption. The first two days were half-days, doctor’s appointment on Wednesday, and today, thanks to a forgotten permission slip, I’m retrieving my oldest from school at 9:00 while the rest of his team goes on a field trip. Sigh. Not to mention, Mr. Geeky was away…
One of the things we’ve instituted since I’ve quit is tighter control over the kids’ screen-based leisure activities. We were sort of half-heartedly doing this over the last year, kind of taking it day by day, but now we have Rules (with a capital R no less). Geeky Boy’s obsession was the computer, spending hours…
The conversation that started on Mama, Ph.D., which many of us picked up, continues. Tedra brings out some pretty scary stats on the rate of tenured and t-t female faculty who are married with children as compared to men. It raises the question, once again, of why people question whether women can handle both family…
Because it’s been a day where I couldn’t even get 5 minutes in front of a computer, here’s a hilarious video, courtesy of Geeky Boy, who always finds the coolest stuff on the interweb. Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
A video Please consider donating to my efforts in the Susan G. Komen 3-Day Walk for the Cure
I’ve been working on various things that have to do with taking advantage of social software to create active, collaborative learning environments for students. When I talk about using social software, I’m talking about using blogs or wikis or Facebook or Twitter or other freely available web applications and leveraging them for educational purposes. Anyone…
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