Who is the audience for this post? AudienceS is more accurate. They are people who are interested in: Expanding the Global Cooling Project – I’ve never been so excited about anything, and an update is overdue; Notes from the trenches of a teachergeek in his first weeks as tech coordinator at a new Apple 1:1 [...]

Any Lyceum users out there? I just stumbled across it as a possible alternative to WordPress MU. Lyceum’s database structure seems configured to give faster loads (WPMU load time has always driven me crazy, though it’s probably my own fault as administrator), while at the same time using WordPress (not MU) as its blog platform. [...]

[Update: By the way, the student comments in the first panel are quoted from our class Ning. So are my comments in the following two panels. I'm not making this up.] Thanks to Diane Cordell, librarian/educator and word- and image-smith extroardinaire, for inspiring me to take my first stab at ToonDo. True to my worst [...]

Did I ever mention I’m addicted to weekend blog think-alouds?You might know that last week, Somebody Up There damned me with a colossal – and unheard-of – global Skype failure, ten minutes before my big Google Earth World Skype Tour with educator-experts from around the world. I just re-discovered Google Lit Trips while reading Joe [...]

I don’t know Nick Senger, but just discovered his blog, Teen Literacy Tips: Working to Improve the Teaching of Literature, because he linked to my Screencast-o-matic for AP Lit post. (I just love how that works.) Nick’s blog is a keeper for Language Arts teachers. Here’s a very simple, elegant poetry movie assignment he posted [...]

Dana Huff tagged me for this Teaching Meme. I am a good teacher because… (sez who???) if this is true, it would be because I’m an “anti-teacher.” I pity students for being stuck in school, for too often being treated like inmates, and having to sit through what they have to sit through for 12 [...]

I really love Screencast-o-matic (SOM), the free, web-based screencast creator. I’ve been using it to make short edtech tutorials for teachers (who aren’t using them, of course) for the last week. But this Saturday morning, I used it for my students in AP Literature. A few days ago, I had them do a timed writing [...]

First, I tidied up the horrible formatting and added the links I neglected to add in the last post. Second, I have to add that the night was wonderful anyway. It’s not often you begin a new stage in your career as an educator by addressing your school’s parents onstage, and asking them to raise [...]

Constantly risking absurdityand deathwhenever he performsabove the headsof his audiencethe poet like an acrobatclimbs on rimeto a high wire of his own makingand balancing on eyebeamsabove a sea of facespaces his wayto the other side of the day…. ….in his supposed advancetoward that still higher perchwhere Beauty stands and waitswith gravityto start her death-defying leapAnd [...]

We expect my presentation to start around 7.30 p.m. That would make it: Thursday 11 a.m. in London Thursday 12.30 a.m. (ouch) in Hawaii (sorry, Chris! I owe you! Or you can send me a YackPack voice message?) Thursday 4.30 a.m. (carrumba) in Denver (Karl, how about a YackPack message?) Thursday 5.30 p.m. in Bangkok [...]