To Note or Not to Note, That is the Question.

So, I’ve been thinking about note taking. Not note taking by students. I think about that too sometimes, but at the moment I’m thinking about note taking in meetings by adults. I am a note taker, generally speaking. I’m also a list maker. It’s just what I do. I don’t always look back at either [...]

A Cool Tool for me

So, I’ve been thinking about some of the web 2.o tools I like best. One of them is Symbaloo. WHAT DOES IT DO? This tool allows you to organize links to websites. You can use it as a PLE or a way to organize your favorite bookmarked sites. I started using it last year after [...]

A New Job Idea

So, I’ve been thinking about technology integration positions and curriculum positions. I did this thinking at J. Crew*. I can explain. My brother and his oldest child were in town for some quality “cousin time” with my personal kids (as opposed to my school kids). We found ourselves at the local J. Crew, which might [...]

ePortfolio Plans

So, I’ve been thinking about eportfolios for a long time. All last school year I was looking around, talking to folks, listening to webinars/elluminate sessions, tweeting, etc. about it and trying to figure out exactly what to and what format to use. What are my goals anyway? Well here is what I want the portfolio [...]

Filter Failure Update (old post)

So, in my last post I wrote about filter failure. I decided it was actually a matter of coming to the task of sorting information with a mindset of reading carefully and taking some time rather than my normal mindset of breezing through. This, and the fact that I am not alone in feeling there [...]

Filter Failure and Educon (old post)

(post from my old blog Feb 15, 2010) One of the sessions I attended at Educon was facilitated by Lisa Thumann and Liz Davis and titled Managing Filter Failure-Getting to the Good Stuff. I knew that was a session with my name written all over it as soon as I saw the title. You can [...]

Thinking about assessment (old post)

(post from my old blog Feb 7, 2010) Last year I started using a classroom blog, mostly devoted to language arts. By the end of the year there were 1,701 comments. Most of those comments were part of assignments, and I therefore thought they might need some sort of assessing. Even when I was wearing [...]