Are you an educator frustrated with the efforts of education reformers to turn our profession into the 21st century equivalent of a correspondent course? Have a bone to pick with how people interpret the Khan Academy as the “savior” of the modern educational system? Frank Noschese might just be someone you should have in your PLN. Frank is an amazingly reflective educator, who is constantly asking himself, and others, whether...

How easy is it to nominate a teacher for the Worth Ave. Group’s “Greatest American Teacher” award? It takes less time than it would typically take to get a cup of coffee in the morning. Seriously, watch! A few little pieces of information that might prove pertinent that weren’t included in the video above; the nomination process is open until March 31st, 2012, and you can nominate that teacher each day until the...

The Video Story Problem Channel and concept have both been gaining steam since a small group of educators started collaborating on them in the fall. Currently there are almost 60 videos of math, science, and inquiry based problems that have collected over 4,000 views! That’s close to 70 views per video! I don’t want to applaud just the numbers we’re all amassing, because the learning and work that students are...

Richard Byrne posted a great screencast about how to locate the Google Advanced Image Search now that it’s hidden from plain sight in the new layout. Since there’s always more than one way to get a job done, I thought I’d create a video response to show a second way to locate the old advanced image search. There certainly isn’t a right or wrong way to go about it, it’s just which way you find more natural to...

I’m playing with the Common Core Standards in attempt to try and find ways to represent those standards which relate to technology to the rest of the standards as a whole. My ultimate goal is to try and find a way to emphasize the presence and requirement of student use of technological tools and methods of communication within the Common Core, without trying to isolate them as yet another “add on”. I’m not sure if...

As I prepare myself for another trip down the rabbit hole with ds106, I had to remind myself that there are still a plethora of amazingly great resources out there to share with teachers, parents, and others that want simple, practical ways to update their curriculum, or replace static learning experiences with much more fluid or real world experiences. Thanks to the Google Earth blog (one of my personal favorites), comes news of a way to...