I’m browsing the comments on last week’s Open Thread: Your Favorite Teacher Blogs?, and want to thank Bill Ferriter for sharing upstate New York English teacher Dina Strasser’s The Line. I’ve read Dina before, and was struck by her writing then, but life has been too fast recently to bring me back to it. The [...]

It’s 12 minutes from 2008 here in Seoul. It’s also 12 minutes from the One Year Anniversary of Beyond School. So it shouldn’t surprise you that I’m spending New Year’s Eve with my beloved B.S. (I do have an uncharacteristic glass of wine next to me as I write.) I want to steal a trick [...]

Here’s a fun Traveler’s IQ test for you. Timing counts! Report back here with a comment. Let’s get Diane Cordell and Steven Downes in the ring again – time to “flip another goat-sucker”! My score, first time:   And see “related links” below for a few other challenges you can take! Photo Credit: Stuart R [...]

First, a completely original video and music production by a few high-speed students around the world – specifically for you as their audience: ~~~ This is a special post for me, and a special request to you. I hope you’ll find it as exciting as I do. It has the potential to create fairly seismic [...]

All you have to do is look at a picture and you’ll find out. Report back here?

(After that last post, I need a bit of fun.) The blog readability level site is getting a bit viral. Diane Cordell got genius on her own blog, while her A Hundred Echoes quotes-only archive of Shakespeare and Other Great Writers earned college undergrad, I think (right, Diane?). Me? As a proud eschewer of obfuscation [...]

Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant tagged me with this interesting meme, so here are the rules, followed by the last five educational podcasts I listened to and/or watched: Meme guidelines Choose five of your favorite education podcasts. Any kind of education podcast is okay – students, teachers, administrators, professors, etc. – feel free to pick [...]

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 [...]

Patrick Higgins tagged me. Here are the rules: First, the Rules: 1) Post these rules before you give your facts 2) List 8 random facts about yourself 3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them 4) Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know [...]

In my last post I neglected to pass the “5 Secrets of Success” meme on (partly out of the curmudgeonly mood). But I want to use the meme to practice that “true edublog democracy” I kvetched about slightly in my last post. I want to “tag” a few of my ninth-grade bloggers whose personalities and [...]