What Happened to the Potential of Social Media in Education?

Dean Shareski posted this to Twitter (SM = Social Media): Read the thread of comments (it’s worth a minute or 2) by following the link. I’ve written a bit about this before, and ironically that post from 8 years ago also involved Dean (Who’da...

A year ago today everyone was talking about and viewing the eclipse

A year ago today I was very fortunate to be part of a NASA sponsored team launching high altitude balloons in Idaho to record data about the total eclipse. Meantime back in northern Nevada where I work, thousands of students and members of the general public were...

The “Teacher in Space” – Still Touching the Future

I’ve seen numerous “tweets” today, on the 30th anniversary of the event, from people sharing where they were when they witnessed or heard about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. I was teaching 7th grade in Oakland, California, and our principal...

Use Powerful Tools Powerfully

Over the years I’ve had the pleasure to work, via various social networking sites, with Kathy Cassidy, a teacher “of six year olds,” in Saskatchewan, Canada, according to her class blog. We’ve even met face to face at conferences. My class (4th...