Hopefully, by the time my 6th grader gets out of high school, his teachers will be using a web-based learning management system (LMS) like Moodle to receive and track student assignments. There are LOTS of reasons a LMS can make life easier for both teachers and students. A big one is it can eliminate student [...]

Yes, this is another round-up of fresh and useful Javascript techniques, tools and resources. But don’t close the tab yet, as you might find this one very useful. In this selection we present calendars, forms, buttons, navigation, debugging, optimization and compatibility tables as well as handy resources and tools. We also cover various [...]

I good friend of mine and classmate from college is considering entering the teaching profession as a second career after he retires from the Air Force in a couple years. He asked me for my recommendations of books to read about teaching and being a teacher, and I thought I’d share my list here so [...]

The K-12 Online Conference is an organization, event, and community every educator should recognize. FREE, high-quality, on-demand professional development can be hard to come by, and K-12 Online now includes over 170 outstanding video presentations in its archives. While the conference has taken place the past four years in October (2006, 2007 and 2008) and [...]

I’m presenting twice this afternoon for librarians and staff in the Pioneer Library System of Oklahoma, on the topic, “Communication in the Digital Age.” Rather than prepare a PowerPoint or Keynote slide presentation today, I’ve chosen to share resources utilizing the free website ShareTabs. By using ShareTabs, I’m able to provide attendees with a single [...]

I’m absent this week for my Technology 4 Teachers’ class, due to my involvement in the METC 2010 conference. In my absence, a staff member of UCO’s IT department will be coming to my classes tomorrow to share an hour long “Introduction to the SmartBoard” presentation with my students. In collecting a few links about [...]

Great thoughts about why we should CHOOSE teaching from Gail Lovely:
To be a teacher — choose it as a calling, not a job.
Choose it to do something meaningful and powerful, with rewards only you might notice.
Choose it to be a role model.
Choose to be a teacher because you love learning.
Choose to be a teacher because [...]

From 9:00am to almost 5:30pm, WordPress and iThemes users sat in a conference room talking, learning and sharing ideas.
Here’s a quick video from the first day of our theme Bootcamp in Dallas, TX.

From 9:00am to almost 5:30pm, WordPress and iThemes users sat in a conference room talking, learning and sharing ideas.
Here’s a quick video from the first day of our theme Bootcamp in Dallas, TX.

“We really love this new website you’ve built! Now we’d like to send out an email to all of our customers, friends and anyone, and it should look exactly like the website except with a spinning mailbox at the bottom, and have my photo, and my cat’s photo…” Ever had that conversation with [...]