Go to your room!

Even though my children are both under five, I’ve already dropped the “Go to your room!” on them. I realized that a few years down the road that grounding them to their room will not be that big of a deal. As a teenager, getting grounded was a huge punishment because it meant I was [...]

Encouraging Safety Online

Intermediate level students in my district had the opportunity to hear about being safer while online from Chuck Favata this week. Our sixth grade students were faced with information about cyberbullying and online predators, while the seventh and eighth grade students heard mainly about online predators. I haven’t attended many middle school presentations, but even I thought it [...]

My Three Reasons…

… to Participate in the K12 Online Conference

Learn about new technologies and their use in education.
I can pick and choose what I want to learn and when/where I learn it.
The presentations are well done by people that are acutally using them with students.

What are your reasons for attending? I’m tagging Erik Wittmer, Kyle Simon and Sue [...]

It’s back!

The K12 Online Conference 2007 is underway. There are no excuses for not attending, if even for only one session. The presentations become available as the two weeks progress and can be downloaded for viewing anytime, anywhere. Last year, I viewed a number of presentations and shared a couple with some like minded staff members. [...]