Google Reader

Great tool to organize and bring together your favorite websites on one webpage. Check out an example of my Google Reader, browse feeds, explore blogs, etc. Have fun!
http://www.google.com/reader/view/?hl=en&tab=wy#overview-page

Mike Singletary's Favorite Part of the Game

"Do you know what my favorite

part of the game is?

The opportunity to play."

-Mike Singletary

Make the change

“Like in a divorce, you know, there’s always two sides. So I don’t think we did as good a job, we’re gonna look in the mirror, too, and say, ‘OK, what do we have to do a better job in coaching this team?’ … That’s what all these companies did, they downsized, they re-evaluated, they looked at it. Good time for re-evaluation for us a little bit, because we’re in pretty good shape, 14 straight (NCAA) appearances, we’ve got some consistency. And we’ll be back. We’ll be back, that’s a promise.”

- Tom Izzo after losing to UCLA in the first round of the 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball tournament.

 

Diigo in the classroom

Diigo is a great tool for classroom professional development. I would have to ask around and see how I could infiltrate it into my everyday curriculum. I think it is easy for teachers to grab ideas off the internet and organize them. It will be a little hard for me to pull myself away from my google reader and familiarize myself with another organizational tool. It will be a lot easier once summer comes around and I can have a chance to reorganize everything for next year.

Sugata Mitra: The Child Driven Education

Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching.

Why is it so hard to let go and let the students drive the learning process?

Technology and the spread of revolutions

• The uprisings had a strong assist from contemporary technology
• What else makes Facebook
• The real Facebook revolution is global, and it's only just getting geared up
• Thoughts?

"Why not call it a Facebook revolution?"
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/02/24/facebook.revolution/

A place to vent or a place to share ideas?

What is seen as a forum to "vent" has gotten this teacher in some trouble.Thoughts?
"Teacher strikes nerve with 'lazy whiners' blog: My students are out of control,' teacher wrote in one post, drawing a suspension." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41618492/ns/us_news-life/