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What would you do without your technology?  The other day my bulb for my projector blew out.  It was at the end of the day so no classes were affected, but I was faced with the question: What am I going to do tomorrow?  I have no other board in my classroom other than my…

It is with a sad heart that I write this post. Last night a brave and strong student died from a long battle with illness.  Robert was one of the strongest people I have ever met.  Over his two year battle he never once said I can’t do that with respect to anything.  Robert continued…

I recently presented my GURU presentation to the committee and invited them and now I am inviting you to start a conversation with me.  So this is the beginning of my Teach 2033 blog series.  The Big Question is how are we are going to prepare our students to live in the year 2033.  At the bottom of this…

It is Saturday and I just got my power back last night. I was very concerned that I would be going back to work on Monday (still not a guarantee) without power. I am very concerned for my students as some of them may still not have power when we return to school. The question…

Come join me in Bucks County PA for a VirtCon Face to face.  I believe this may be the only one.  I am planing on having it in my home and it will be Kid friendly so feel free to bring yours.  Lets get together and have some fun in my kid friendly house.  We…

Fifty two fist is a formative assessment tool I use.  It began as a way to  resolve an issue I was having with the mystery of the raised hand. I prefer students to raise their hand in my class when responding or asking a question. A raised hand, however, is not very informative. Imagine you…

The time for back to school night has come again. Every year I am excited to try something new that will make the experience better for my students and better for my parents. The problem with back to school night has been I have felt like I just ran a marathon and have been talking…

As Larry Page, the co-founder of Google.com narrates: “Lucas Pereira: ‘You idiots, you spelled [Googol] wrong!’ But this was good, because google.com was available and googol.com was not. Now most people spell ‘Googol’ ‘Google’, so it worked out OK in the end.” or according to Google corp. 1999: ” 10^100 (a gigantic number) is a…