Dignity for Chickens, Yes! Humans? Not so much!
Elections are a crazy affair in the people’s Republic of California where republican democracy has been nearing extinction ever since Proposition 13 was passed in …
Learn to Make a DVD from Web Videos
This web site offers a concise and clear tutorial on how to download web videos and even burn them to a DVD using Real Player. …
There, I Said It!
I just sat through my first entire keynote by David Warlick. Although, I respectfully disagree with some of his assumptions, he was very very good. …
Registration Now Open for CMK 2009!
How does one possibly top a summer institute where Alfie Kohn, Peter Reynolds, Bob Tinker, Marvin Minsky and an all-star faculty joined educators from around …
See you in Seattle?
I’m off Monday to speak at the NSBA T+L Conference in Seattle. I’m doing three presentations including: “The Best Education Ideas in the World” (brand …
Senator Biden Interviewed by a 5th Grader
..and yes, the Democratic Vice Presidential Candidate is smarter than a fifth grader! (The kid is terrific too) Be sure to watch until the end!
Stop the VoiceThread! Please!
Wes Fryer spends a great deal of time and effort on his blog and in workshops touting VoiceThread as an important new educational tool. VoiceThread …
What Makes a Good Project?
Here is my latest article to be published in a forthcoming edition of The Creative Educator magazine.
The $100 Laptop in Vanity Fair & a Colombian School
Vanity Fair writer and widow of Tom Russert, Maureen Orth, wrote a charming article about a small school she built in the Colombian Andes while …
Iconoclasts
I have long been fascinated by experts, expertise and the commonalities between them. I have learned much about learning by being in the presence of …