A few days ago Pete Rilley wrote a great post on Education’s Hidden Message. It really struck a cord with me. I have pretty much felt this way about education since I was a student, and that is one of the reasons I entered the field. One of the many messages my parents gave me while growing up was in essence “if you don’t like something you can walk away or you can change it.” Some times I feel overwhelmed,…
I have been virtual lurker these past few days, reading blogs from their beginning to the present. This came about after a discussion with a new blogger in my district. She was feeling inadequate, thinking she had nothing new to say, she felt she was trying to catch up, she was not a writer after all. I am not a writer and that certainly hasn’t stopped me. We all enter the blogoshere at different points along our learning path. We…
Well it is a vacation week and I have been playing with the blog. I upgraded Word Press, and am toying with a new template, PressRow. I was able to do some modifications but am having trouble getting the archive and about pages to work, I just get copies of the blog page. I have followed the directions provided by the designer, but no luck. I like the ability to look at posts by categories, and month. I will play…
I am a Mac user, though I work in a PC district, and who knows the way things are going I may soon be playing with linux. But when you are fighting an up hill battle to maintain the status quo it is hard to move forward let alone change direction, but I digress I am a Mac user, and sometimes I bring my Mac to work to use some of the productivity programs I have installed. A colleague asked…
I must apologize if you had any trouble accessing the blog. The Web hosting service I use had MySQL database server issues over the weekend. Seems to be resolved now…. just one more reason I should be looking for a new hosting service.
I am not sure what to call it, housekeeping, digital clean up, or web maintenance. But whatever it is, it has taken up quite a bit of time and I am not yet done. In my role as K12 Technology Integration Specialist, I feel it is part of my responsibility to experiment with many of the web tools that are available for teachers. I believe I need to play with the tools to know what will be useful in different…
It is the weekend and I thought I would play around with my blog, much better then cleaning the house, or buying groceries. I know my blog needs a major overhaul, I am not pleased with the look, after a year it seems dark and cramped. But I still have not settled on a look or feel. Today I added SNAP preview to my blog. I have seen it on a few blogs I read and thought I would give…