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I made this because I saw this and this on the same day. Then I saw Scott was having a contest, but the deadline had already passed. Then Dan made this and I got re-inspired. Plus, I hate getting beat at my own game. So I made this. Because I don’t like to be left out.

[I posted this on LeaderTalk earlier today.] I had a whole post ready for my “official” LeaderTalk day last Friday but in the end I just couldn’t bring myself to click “Publish.” I was a little frustrated when I wrote it and I think it needs to simmer for a bit before it’s ready for prime [...]

I had an amazing weekend. We had no school on Friday (payback for two grueling nights of parent-teacher conferences on Wednesday and Thursday), but I opened my email that morning to learn that I was selected as an Apple Distinguished Educator. For those who know me, that’s a little bit like the mother ship calling [...]

Here are the links I know you’ve been dying to have for this Saturday’s Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation. Links to all Elluminate Sessions Direct link to the room for my session (My talk begins on Saturday, February 21, 2009, at 9:30 AM MST / 1630 GMT) Link to the (still in progress) wiki for my talk I look [...]

I had the good fortune of listening to one of my favorite educators talk to a group of pre-service teachers about discipline and classroom management. I asked her to give this talk because she deals with some of our most challenging students, yet has very few attendance problems and almost never has a discipline issue. I [...]

Michael Wesch blogged recently about “How to get students to read 94 articles before the next class.” Essentially, each student in his class had to find, read, and summarize five articles before the next class. The summaries were consolidated using Zoho Creator, and, well, according to Wesch: By the time of our next class, all 16 students [...]

[Cross-posted at LeaderTalk] I blogged earlier this week about the potential for collaborative technologies to have a significant impact on the way we deliver professional development in our schools. The more I think about it, the more I’m convinced that we are right on the precipice of some really powerful transformations in the ways that schools [...]

As a PhD student I spend too much of my time pondering what topic I’ll eventually tackle for The Dissertation. Naturally, I’m interested in leadership and leadership development, but I’m also interested in learning. Specifically, the way we learn when we leverage the power of collaborative technologies that, right now, we’re barely even scratching the [...]

I’m excited to announce (for those who didn’t hear it on the last episode of Practical Principals) that I’ve been accepted to lead a conversation at Learning 2.0: A Colorado Conversation in a few weeks. While I’m really excited about it, I’m also a little nervous. I think I’m going to be in the “Leadership and [...]

(Cross-posted at LeaderTalk) I stand in the same place every day between every class. I see hundreds of kids file past me four times a day and I never thought they even noticed or cared. I say “hi” to kids who make eye contact with me and I smile a lot. I joke with kids who [...]