I am attending a Metropolitan Community College “Technology Show ‘n Tell” for adjunct instructors. Various teachers are sharing their technologies with other teachers. It is fascinating how complex the world of technology is, and how everything is just out there for the taking. The big problem, as I’m sure most of you know, is knowing …
This should also be titled, “Or what I can learn from my students.” I am a pessimist by nature. I admit it. I have this negative streak a mile wide. I always feel like more could be done and in a better way. Maybe I’m not a pessimist, maybe I’m just never quite satisfied because …
This writing stems from an article in this month’s Car & Driver. They ran a comparison test between all the major electric cars on the market. Fiat, Chevy, Ford, Smart, among others were tested. After reading the article, I was bothered by one thing. Here were all these electric vehicles built for the sole purpose …
I am looking at my WordPress site, and I’m thinking, “Twenty Twelve” theme? Really? And you call yourself a techevangelist?!” And I am wondering if my choice of theme says something about me and my abilities as a technology infused educator? Sure it does. Don’t all of our choices ultimately say something about us? I …
Today I found myself in a bit of a conundrum. I am the team leader of a group of three teachers who have all agreed to use a common rubric to grade student essays. I have been using turnitin.com for years to grade student work. I have found the ease of use combined with the …
I just had this thought today. I read a book about how we are not machines. You are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier seems to be focusing on the mistake we make as modern people to compare what we do and the way we think and behave to machinery. It is a pretty common …
I write this post because I recently attended a family funeral. Four of my immediate family members on teachers, and when we got together, we compared notes on what we had to do to get out of work to come to this funeral. My brother and sister lied and said the relative was their “uncle” …
Google Art Project, while still obscure, has grown up a bit. It has taken on a new name: The Google Cultural Insitute. How truly stuffy of them. Art Project had such a nice simple ring to it. Want to learn about art? Go to the Google Art Project! Now you have to attend the Cultural …
We have a new person joining our Humanities team next semester. He’s going to dive head first into our curriculum and I’m worried that he’ll drown under the weight of 2000 years of philosophy, art and literature. I’m sure he’ll be fine. As I was preparing the curriculum chart for the next semester, I thought …
After my previous post, which complained about spam comments, I received more spam comments than I’ve ever gotten before. I checked, and my Captcha filter is working… so I don’t know how in the name of heaven that could happen. 225 spam comments from all over the internet. I found this wonderful plugin http://wordpress.org/plugins/delete-pending-comments/ and …