In the depths of New York City, on top of the Empire State Building, a creature rested. That creature was me…. I’m moved to plug Many Voices, a Twitter creative writing global collaboration (ages 5-13?) created by George Mayo in Washington, D.C. The more I think about it, the more brilliant it is. [Update: I [...]

Head on over to Patrick Higgins‘ Voicethread for his staff development workshop to both explore one very nifty educational tool and to have fun helping Patrick at the same time! (Yes, the W.C. Fields icon is mine.)

The only thing worth quitting is smoking. (I’m on day 4, by the way.) This project is not worth quitting. It’s growing in a really fun, easy, fascinating way. Here’s an update about developments on the planning Ning (the “Global Cooling Collective,” which is again now open for easy membership or lurking), in our school [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I can’t keep a secret. I promised Chris in Honolulu and Michele in Arapahoe that I wouldn’t announce the launch of the 1001 Flat World Tales website until we did some clean-up. But – wait, wait – oh, heck, I’ll keep my promise. I’ll hold off on announcing the website for a day or two. [...]

bettySeptember005.jpgOriginally uploaded by digitalteacupdotcom. Who hit fast-forward? On Monday, it’s back to school for teachers at Korea International School. Since I’ll be 3/4 tech coordinator, and since the high school is making its debut as a 1:1 Apple laptop school, the field is fertile for connecting classrooms. Blogs, wikis, Skype conferences, webcam, film, podcast: you [...]

“See, Hear, Speak No Evil” by AndyRamdin on Flickr [Update: This post is extends a critique of my own teaching, and typical schooling in general, that I wrote last week in "I'm Nobody. Goodbye to All of That." Makes sense to start there, if you haven't read it already.] I have a headache and a [...]

[This post is a watershed for me, stuffy as that may sound. Many loose threads needed weaving. I apologize for the tone, which I fear is typically more self-important and more harsh than I would like. I also apologize for the length. I hope you'll read it through, and thank you if you do. Update [...]