2020 Nexus

Happy New Year! I hope you (all 5-6 readers–LOL) had a good Christmas and are enjoying your break from the routine. It’s flying by way too fast, isn’t it? Even so, I hope you are enjoying family or friends and unplugging just a bit. Personally, I’ve welcomed this time to catch [...]

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I’ve come to the conclusion that I spend way too much time online. Some of it’s for work, some of it’s for fun, and some of it is for professional development. Some of it is very valuable, some not so much. It’s starting become like the TV or the phone were in [...]

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This question has been simmering in my head the last several days because of some news and blogs I’ve read recently. Consider these recent headlines:
Teachers Should Blog, Tweet and Flirt Online Like the Rest of Us
Fired! EFL teacher loses his job after employer finds out about his blog.
Florida teacher may lose job over MySpace
Thinking about [...]

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I admit I was shamed into getting more serious about my blogging by reading a fellow blogger who told his teachers in staff development that if they weren’t going to be committed to blogging, they shouldn’t bother, because it wouldn’t work with kids under those conditions. I am paraphrasing, of course. So [...]

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I’m in the middle of a strenous (but great) four-month online course by the Oracle Education Foundation about Project Based Learning, 21st Century Skills, and Global Collaboration. It’s all happening at their iLearning site and Think.com. I can’t wait to go to San Francisco in a couple of weeks where [...]

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