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What I saw at CLHS.....
I just returned home from speaking at the California League of High Schools Statewide conference this past weekend and it was a different experience for me for many reasons. First, I usually attend and...
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It has been quite some time since I have posted on this blog for a variety of reasons... select the best reason for my length of time without posting.1) Too busy being the Vice Principal at Woodside...
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"Yes We Can" Because?
NOTE: I am cleaning up some of the partial posts I have been working on over the past few weeks.Since the school year has ended and I have had a little more time to get to the thousands of feeds and...
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Leadership Day 2009
I wanted to post today to Scott McLeod's Leadership Day request, because I see myself in a situation that is different than most administrators and therefore, most educational leaders in the US today....
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How Society Has Changed...
Well... this is a different type of post than I usually post here. Since almost all of them deal with Educational Technology in some way. This post is more of an observation of society and how times...
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Global, Mobile, Ubiquitous and Cheap
Those four words have been the rallying cry for most of Clay Shirky's recent talks at TED@State and other venues recently, speaking about how the media landscape is changing at a rapid rate. In one of...
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We Have No Excuse!
Over the past few days, while I have been on break, I have been mulling around the blogosphere looking at all of the things that have been going on. I got completely caught up on reading everything in...
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Sifting Through Infowhelm
Over the past several months I have definitely been experiencing "Infowhelm." In my position as the Administrative Vice Principal at Woodside High School, I don't have as much time as I used to to...
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The First Penguin
I have spent the past couple of weeks getting through Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture." I have found it to be real, poignant and inspiring. If you aren't familiar with the book or the theme; Randy,...
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New Year - New Tech Strategy - Week 1
With the beginning of the New Year, we all make some resolutions that we want to make this year a bit better than the last. I am no different in this regard, I tweeted this afternoon that my New...
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2011 - The Year Education becomes Flat
It's been almost 6 years since the initial publication of Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat." This is one of the books that transformed me as an educator. There are others that I read before it...
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Where are Your Black Holes?
Over the past twelve years, I have been fighting the same fight. I have long been an advocate of teachers integrating the use of technology into their professional practice, but the excuse that most...
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The Tool Box of the Internet has Gone to the Birds
We have finally arrived.... We are free and most of us don't even know it.Software and compatibility issues have been a thorn in the side of educational technology for years. I can remember when I was...
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Transferring the Model Downward
While many college students have had the opportunity to take online classes, those opportunities have been very limited for high school students. Most school districts have looked for ways to make sure...
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The Lost Generation
Ten Years Ago, we were introduced to the idea of Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives. We were told that people who were born before 1990 were Digital Immigrants, because most of their education will...
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Is Facebook Looking in the Rear View Mirror?
Google+ is growing by leaps and bounds. Current growth estimates have it at over 20 million users. It took Facebook close to 18 months to get to the same number of users. Facebook has definitely...
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How Students Use Technology
Here is a nice infographic from onlineeducation.net. If there was any question about the fact that the students we teach do not heavily rely on their own personal technology, this will close the...
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Skills: Mad and Necessary
Things are changing, yet they are staying the same. The introduction of a variety of technologies, which have changed the way educational services can be delivered to students and the vast variety of...
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Text Messaging: The Lost Tool In The Educators Tool Kit
One of the greatest tools that teachers never take advantage of is text messaging services, or Short Message Service, (SMS) There are several tools available now to take even more advantage of this...
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Race To The Bottom: Tablet Wars
One of the Educational Technology issues that I have always felt very strongly about has been equity and access of technology for all students. I was shocked to hear about the Aakash tablet that was...
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Have We Hit The Bottom? No, But We Can See It From Here.
In my post on October 26, 2011, I look did a round up of all of the tablets that are or will be available soon and what this will mean for education. In January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las...
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More Super Coolness in Google Docs
I haven't posted on this blog much in the past few months, due to the huge lack of time with my job, but when this popped up, I had to get something out. This is super cool, when you are writing in...
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I am Sandpaper...
I am Sandpaper. Learning is a process that encompasses one thing more than anything else... friction. How we deal with friction is an important step in how successful our students are in...
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