I read this post on Inquire Within a couple of weeks ago and it has been sitting with me ever since. Such good ideas in it! Please go and read it. The post talks about all the ‘c’ words that are often used to describe education and learning in the 21st Century: The … Continue reading »
A parent of one of my students recently sent me this video: Shawn Achor encourages us to think differently about the correlation between success and happiness. Many people would say that if you become successful, you will be happy. Achor argues that if your focus is first on being happy, success will follow and your happiness will be longer … Continue reading »
This morning I was taking a look through Google Apps for Education. Here is one I thought was pretty interesting and worth sharing: EDCANVAS If you are familiar with Padlet (formerly known as Wallwisher), this is fairly similar. It is a place for you to store your research on a particular topic. Sources of information … Continue reading »
I follow the ‘homeschooling’ blog of Patricia Zaballos. I say ‘homeschooling’ because I really just want to say ‘schooling‘ or ‘teaching in a way that works’ or even ‘killer education ideas that are totally awesome’ as her ideas and techniques seem to me, to be transferrable to any situation in which you are looking to inspire, … Continue reading »
There was an article on Fast Co. recently that caught my eye. The title of the article? Do Like Steve Jobs Did: Don’t Follow Your Passion. The article references Job’s now famous Stanford commencement speech and then goes on to detail how he lived and how his passion was not always technology. There was a … Continue reading »
Last week, I flew to the Netherlands for a meeting. I travelled with United. Somewhat notoriously known for poor or lack of service, I had very low expectations for my flights. Both there and back, my expectations were wildly exceeded. I wasn’t upgraded, the food was no better, the seats no wider or delivering more … Continue reading »
On my drive home today, I noticed a sign like the one above as I approached an intersection. I have some bulletin board boarders in my classroom that say “Caution! Kids at Work”. I got them because I thought they were cute. I am now thinking of replacing them with a big sign like this … Continue reading »
The landing of Curiosity on Mars was beyond amazing. Here are five cool finds to share the awesomeness and bask in the wonder of Curiosity: Mars Panoramic EDS Systems have stitched together a high-resolution interactive panorama of Curiosity’s landing site from where she’ll soon embark on at least two years of research and investigation of the red planet. … Continue reading »
After I finished my last post, the quote above was on my homepage as an encouragement to reach my 90th post (this one!). I like it. I hadn’t thought of it quite like that before, but when I post on here, “thinking through my fingers” is exactly what I am doing. I love those of … Continue reading »
I love – no, adore – my dog. Seriously. We hang out together a lot. She is perfect in every way (not at all biased). Thing is, she doesn’t like other dogs. We don’t know her history having adopted her from the Humane Society, but we do know there was evidence of abuse in … Continue reading »
