Multi-faceted Refractions

This is the third year of the EduCon conference (http://www.educon22.org/), one of the more interesting phenomenons that I can think of in recent times. The genesis of this conference was built from an idea and brainstorm and has it has grown into a sold-out, 500 physical attendee conference. Once again, there is a buzz as [...]

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Why should you want to know? Don’t you mind about the future?
Don’t you try to think ahead?
Save tomorrow for tomorrow, think about today instead.
What’s the buzz, tell me what is happening
I could give you facts and figures. Even give you plans and forecasts
from What’s the Buzz, Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Weber  and Tim Rice
It [...]

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Over the past 18 months, I have been collaborating with two of our history teachers, Frank Dachille and Tim Curren, with their project to revamp our 9th and 10th History courses. This year, rather than creating a written assessment  culminating the 9th grade curriculum, Frank wanted to create an assessment where student recorded their response [...]

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We are in the midst of planning for a potential renovation of our high school, beginning as early as this upcoming June. I have been asked to sit in many meetings with the architects discussing what the new learning studios will potentially look like. One of the solutions that they have proposed is implementing Steelcase’s media:scape (see [...]

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Yesterday, while working at home, a realization crystallized for me. For 80% of what I do, I am working within two applications, my web browser and a twitter client. Nothing more, nothing less. This has occurred more significantly since we migrated to Google Apps for Education.
Occasionally, I will also use other applications. I do use [...]

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