About: I'm an instructional designer at the Hunter College Campus School. I support the effective use of technology in schools and classrooms.

I am also keen on the role of games in education. Please find below an ever-changing picture of me. You know, just in case you were curious.

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2008

May
The way IT is supposed to be…in schools?

April
Anna Karenina and more on the Slavic Heart
The right circumstances for games in education to work
New animation on the horizon
PBS videos on iTunes
Google: Managing google alerts
Office: how to annotate a Word document
Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
RSS links for text-based games
To understand Poland, you’ve got to understand Russia

March
How to keep track of good websites?
HOWTO: using YouTube in education
The internet rots your brain
Support
Latest resume
Happy IWD!
Thanks, Gary

February
The Finnish
What does an instructional designer do?
A $400.00 lightbulb - part 3 (final)

January
a $400.00 lightbulb - part 2
A $400.00 lightbulb
2007

December
Off the Grid
Internet safety
Standardization
Can Eve Online be played casually?

November
Is Eve Online Educational?
Back from Thanksgiving!
Games and compulsive internet use
The Water Cooler Effect
Why I love Ubuntu and my frustration at work
Gifted Education and Technology

October
Um, EA? What are you smoking?
That Beautiful moment of aha!

September
Security and the absense of reason
slashdot tackles educational technology

August
comments now working!
So you want to blog, eh?
Office: how to password protect an office document
Student laptops in the classroom
Mac vs PC
A perfect vacation

July
Vacation!
HOWTO: Use google pages
Linux certification
J.K Rowling
Good text-based gaming links
Some answers to some common questions:
10 easy ways to miss the boat
Using Civilization in class
Design changes finished
The two realms of Ed Tech - part 3
The two realms of Ed Tech - part 2
The two realms of Ed Tech - part 1

June
Seven things you should know
Changing and tweaking!

May
Interviewed on podcast
Discernment and EdTech

April
Grand Theft Calculus
Designing games
Thoughts and Prayers…
Liminality
Welcome readers from M*U*S*H : updated with log
Major new edtech report. Some technology doesn’t help math and reading
New Games in Education custom search !!
Call to Boycott Circuit City
Quick! Part 2
HCHS rountable podcast: are games educational?

March
Quick! How can we make technology work in education?!
Text-based games podcast
Google: using shared calendars
Remarkable school technology wiki
Using Google documents
A trouble ticket success story: part 2
A trouble ticket success story: part 1

February
Classic text-based games
innovate and distance learning

January
Game Research
Second life question
Impact of ICT in schools
Digital image library solution?
Why do teachers use tech?
We are coming for you….
Pretty CSS font styles
Happy New Year!
2006

December
I want to approach buying the game as a learning opportunity
Light on the horizon!

November
Recharging my blogging batteries

October
Educational Network Security - part 2
Harnessing the power of video games for learning
The nightmare that is learning Polish…
Educational Network Security - part 1
Getting your foot in the door
HOWTO: Blackboard: organizing folders
Spore in the NYT”
My little existential crisis about COTS games….

September
HOWTO: Blackboard: manging links
HOWTO: Blackboard: Course Documents
Digital Games based learning article
Where is the game research?
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