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OK, I admit it.  I'm a Dances with the Stars Fan.  Although I do believe that the series has jumped the shark with the group hip-hop number two weeks ago (did we really need to see Cloris Leachman in short-shorts?), ...

I'm referring, of course, to my new Interactive Whiteboard. I think I'm going to name my second child Promethean.

So, in a move reminiscent of a 12-year old girl caught up in the riot mentality of rumors, I believed the whisper I heard about not getting my Whiteboard for 2 months.  But I tell you now: it was false, ...

So, I had my online training.  I met the Whiteboard sales guy in my classroom to discuss where the board is to be mounted.  I talked with my principal to develop an interactive whiteboard presentation during our first staff development ...

I commented on Joanne Jacobs article, "Stop Facilitating and Start Teaching," based on Fred Strine's article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.  Strine indicates that more student-centered teaching is somehow less taught and, consequently, less learned.  Jacobs paraphrases that the "'sage on the ...

You know, sometimes I wonder if I'm not a huge pain in the ass to present for, especially if I love what's going on.  I'm one of those audience members who has to verbally digest and implement what I am ...

Remember Rich Hall in HBOs 1980s comedy, Not Necessary the News?  He created sniglets, words that should have been in the dictionary, but weren't.  For example: Foodgitives: The food on one side of a TV dinner tray that escapes to the other side. ...

Check out this kinda frightening prediction from early Time Magazine sources.  It seems that there is an attempt to create blocks of media packages starting as early as 2012 or earlier.  That is, very much like TV cable packaging, the ...

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