Collateral Learning

I love Google.  There, I’ve admitted it.  Just about every part of Google is great- GoogleMaps, Google Earth, Google Images, Google Video, Google Blog Search, Sketchup, GoogleReader, GMail, GoogleDocs - Everything (well, except for Google Toolbar which is absolutely wretched when it ends up on one of our student’s laptops.)  To me, Google is like [...]

I’ve been working on ways to teach style to young writers and I’ve been given a few great ideas over the years.  Keep in mind, I am by no means an expert- my Creative Writing degree helps me to justify my lack of grammar knowledge by obligating me to bend the rules in creative ways.  [...]

Over the summer I gave a session at the Laptop Institute on the effect that technological advancement has on ethics as well as how ethics then affects technological advancements.  One example I gave was with music:  in the late nineties, there was a technological boom on the internet.  This boom led to Napster and others [...]

We, like many K-12 schools, face an interesting dilemma when it comes to making the web useful for our teachers.  When you are a multi-divisional school, how do you adapt technology usage for lower school as well as upper school kids without leaving out the fact that you also have middle school kids using it [...]

Lately I’ve been contemplating my title- Assistant.  This is actually the first time in five years that I’ve kept the same title for more than one year.  It seems strange; I’ve gone from religious studies teacher to Adjunct Instructor of Religious Studies and Ethics to Technology integration Specialist to Web and Graphic Media Specialist to [...]