Teaching

  Leo Babauta points out 9 essential skills for kids on his blog www.ZenHabits.net.  Unfortunately I couldn’t get past his opening line “kids in today’s school system are not being prepared well for…

When I joined Younghoon’s 4th grade team my team leaders excitedly told me about an amazing Narrative Writing unit.  Their excitement quickly became my own as I our class discovered elements of narrative writing…

When I google myself a comedian comes up.  Thanks to him for hiding all those college memories from the rest of the internet.  But what happens when I’m trying to grow my…

Going paperless provides a unique opportunity for my students to grow as digital citizens. Thinking back to yesterday’s post about ISTE standards, having a paperless class would be the perfect opportunity for students…

During our first class Professor Steve Katz introduced the ISTE standards (International Society for Technology in Education.)  These standards are quite relevant for me especially given my most recently developed presentation, The Google Curriculum.  I’ll be presenting…

I went to a Google Apps in Education conference the other weekend.  It was awesome meeting with such like minded people and being surrounded by positive teaching vibes!  We all nerded out a bit in…

Thankful, humbled, flattered, honored & feeling blessed.  The last week brought lots of good news and opened new doors without closing any.  Whether its good karma, good luck or simply I that…