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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• Blogging

  • Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 1
  • Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 2
  • Blogging and eFolios
  • Changing and tweaking!
  • Crossing the line and blogging. What crosses the line?
  • Google RSS news reader
  • How do I use blogs in my classroom: securing a blogger blog.
  • How do I use blogs in my classsroom: an answer.
  • myspace, teens and education...
  • So you want to blog, eh?
  • Some nice press attention
  • State of the blogosphere
  • The Finnish
  • Want a great blog? do this...

• Games in education

  • 10 easy ways to miss the boat
  • 9 Paradoxes of learning through video games & simulation
  • A COTS game with potential: SPORE
  • A new year and some new games
  • A stampede ...
  • An invitation to try computer games in your classroom
  • Can Eve Online be played casually?
  • COTS game design that works
  • Criteria for evaluating games in education
  • Designing games
  • Digital Games based learning article
  • Evaluting educational potential in a COTS game
  • Evidence, evidence!
  • Game Research
  • Games and assessment: a closer look
  • Games and compulsive internet use
  • Games and multitasking. A good thing?
  • Games and Socialization: are MMO's bad for your social life?
  • Games Developer Conference: Jesper Juul on broadening the game-meme
  • Games in education wiki
  • Games, public schools & religion
  • Getting to Z: part 1
  • Getting to Z: part 2
  • Getting to Z: part 3
  • Getting to Z: part 4
  • Getting to Z: part 5
  • Getting to Z: Part 6 - Final
  • Getting your foot in the door
  • Grand Theft Calculus
  • Harnessing the power of video games for learning
  • Helping teachers use games
  • Hold the bar higher
  • I want to approach buying the game as a learning opportunity
  • Inform 7 released! Interactive fiction
  • Instructional Design and games in education
  • Interviewed on podcast
  • Is Eve Online Educational?
  • John Kirriemuir does it again!
  • Know any good books on educational gaming?
  • meta-analysis shows games work
  • My little existential crisis about COTS games....
  • New Games in Education custom search !!
  • New interview from the San Francisco Chronicle
  • Podcasts feed finally working!
  • Real teachers, real games. The Games Developer Conference beckons!
  • Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked
  • Richard Bartle on Games and Learning
  • Serious games conference notes available
  • Some answers to some common questions:
  • Spore in the NYT"
  • Text-based games podcast
  • The right circumstances for games in education to work
  • Um, EA? What are you smoking?
  • USA Today quoted WHO?!
  • Using Civilization in class
  • Violence and Computer games: a response
  • Virtual Worlds in education
  • Where is the game research?
  • Why dual booting Apple computers are a big deal in games in education
  • Wiki help

  • Practical Advice

    • 10 easy ways to miss the boat
    • Some answers to some common questions:
    • The right circumstances for games in education to work
    • Using Civilization in class

• Educational Tech

  • A $400.00 lightbulb
  • a $400.00 lightbulb - part 2
  • A $400.00 lightbulb - part 3 (final)
  • A trouble ticket success story: part 1
  • A trouble ticket success story: part 2
  • Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 1
  • Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 2
  • Blogging and eFolios
  • Digital image library solution?
  • Discernment and EdTech
  • Earth From Space: collection of pictures
  • Educational Network Security - part 1
  • Educational Network Security - part 2
  • Edward Tufte is a smart guy
  • Excel gradebook templates
  • Games and compulsive internet use
  • Gifted Education and Technology
  • Google: using shared calendars
  • Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
  • How do I use blogs in my classroom: securing a blogger blog.
  • How do I use blogs in my classsroom: an answer.
  • How do we know if it's true?
  • How to keep track of good websites?
  • If it's all online, what am I going to teach?
  • Impact of ICT in schools
  • Inform 7 released! Interactive fiction
  • innovate and distance learning
  • Integrating technology in public schools: part 1
  • Integrating technology in public schools: part 2
  • Integrating technology in schools: part 3
  • Internet safety
  • Jenkins talks about myspace and the future of learning and teaching.
  • Mac vs PC
  • Major new edtech report. Some technology doesn't help math and reading
  • New Games in Education custom search !!
  • Online Learning
  • Open Source in education
  • PBS videos on iTunes
  • Pretty CSS font styles
  • Professional development
  • Quick! How can we make technology work in education?!
  • Quick! Part 2
  • Security and the absense of reason
  • Seven things you should know
  • slashdot tackles educational technology
  • Some nice press attention
  • Standardization
  • Student laptops in the classroom
  • Subversive technology integration
  • Support
  • Technology Survey
  • Text-based games podcast
  • That Beautiful moment of aha!
  • The beautiful aha
  • The case for using delicious
  • The Finnish
  • The internet rots your brain
  • The time has come, the danger is real. It's time to ban pencils
  • The two realms of Ed Tech - part 1
  • The two realms of Ed Tech - part 2
  • The two realms of Ed Tech - part 3
  • The Water Cooler Effect
  • The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?
  • Time Magazine: are kids too wired for their own good?
  • Welcome readers from M*U*S*H : updated with log
  • What does an instructional designer do?
  • What is a good school website??
  • What's up with educational technology anyways?
  • Who is using technology in your school?
  • Why do teachers use tech?
  • Why dual booting Apple computers are a big deal in games in education
  • Wiki's and education?
  • Windows: Math Fractals and Graphing program
  • Yet another reason to love Google...

  • Design

    • A $400.00 lightbulb
    • a $400.00 lightbulb - part 2
    • A $400.00 lightbulb - part 3 (final)
    • Edward Tufte is a smart guy
    • Gifted Education and Technology
    • Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
    • How to keep track of good websites?
    • slashdot tackles educational technology
    • Student laptops in the classroom
    • The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?

  • Gifted

    • Gifted Education and Technology

  • platform

    • Mac vs PC
    • Security and the absense of reason

  • Security

    • Educational Network Security - part 1
    • Educational Network Security - part 2
    • Internet safety
    • Security and the absense of reason

  • Smartboards

    • Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use

  • Support

    • a $400.00 lightbulb - part 2
    • Standardization
    • Support
    • That Beautiful moment of aha!
    • The Water Cooler Effect
    • The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?

• HOWTO

  • Excel gradebook templates
  • Google: Managing google alerts
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: announcements
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: assignments
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: books
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: Course Documents
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: course information
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: introduction to the control panel
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: manging links
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: organizing folders
  • HOWTO: Blackboard: Staff information
  • HOWTO: google: sending email from different accounts
  • HOWTO: Google: setting up groups in google (especially for teachers!)
  • HOWTO: Introduction to quickmaps.com
  • HOWTO: Use google pages
  • HOWTO: using del.icio.us
  • HOWTO: using giffy.com
  • HOWTO: using YouTube in education
  • HOWTO: wiki's and you
  • Office: how to annotate a Word document
  • Office: how to password protect an office document
  • OS X HOWTO: backing up using a USB thumb drive
  • OS X HOWTO: Introduction to OS X
  • OS X HOWTO: introduction to Word
  • OS X HOWTO: use a usb thumb drive
  • OS X HOWTO: Using iCal
  • Using Google documents
  • Windows HOWTO: Creating filters in Eudora
  • Windows HOWTO: excel and charting
  • Windows HOWTO: getting clipart
  • Windows HOWTO: inserting clipart in word
  • Windows HOWTO: Introduction to excel
  • Windows HOWTO: Introduction to powerpoint
  • Windows HOWTO: introduction to Windows
  • Windows HOWTO: Powerpoint advanced
  • Windows HOWTO: printing in powerpoint
  • Windows HOWTO: smartboard 101
  • Windows HOWTO: Using Acrobat Reader for new users
  • Windows HOWTO: using flickr
  • Windows: HOWTO powerpoint grouping and motion paths

  • blackboard

    • HOWTO: Blackboard: announcements
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: assignments
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: books
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: Course Documents
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: course information
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: introduction to the control panel
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: manging links
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: organizing folders
    • HOWTO: Blackboard: Staff information

  • general computing

    • Office: how to password protect an office document
    • Windows HOWTO: Creating filters in Eudora
    • Windows HOWTO: introduction to Windows
    • Windows HOWTO: Using Acrobat Reader for new users

  • google

    • HOWTO: google: sending email from different accounts
    • HOWTO: Google: setting up groups in google (especially for teachers!)
    • HOWTO: Use google pages
    • Using Google documents

  • office

    • Excel gradebook templates
    • Google: Managing google alerts
    • Office: how to annotate a Word document
    • Office: how to password protect an office document
    • OS X HOWTO: introduction to Word
    • Windows HOWTO: inserting clipart in word
    • Windows HOWTO: Introduction to powerpoint
    • Windows HOWTO: Powerpoint advanced
    • Windows HOWTO: printing in powerpoint

  • os x

    • OS X HOWTO: backing up using a USB thumb drive
    • OS X HOWTO: Introduction to OS X
    • OS X HOWTO: introduction to Word
    • OS X HOWTO: use a usb thumb drive
    • OS X HOWTO: Using iCal

  • web 2.0

    • HOWTO: Introduction to quickmaps.com
    • HOWTO: using del.icio.us
    • HOWTO: using giffy.com
    • HOWTO: using YouTube in education
    • HOWTO: wiki's and you
    • Windows HOWTO: using flickr

• Linux

  • Linux certification
  • Why I love Ubuntu and my frustration at work

• News

  • A trouble ticket success story: part 2
  • Blacklists and you: some information
  • Discernment and EdTech
  • Games in education wiki
  • Last day of school
  • Welcome to the new site!
  • Wiki help

• Personal

  • 2004 professional goals
  • A perfect vacation
  • A trouble ticket success story: part 1
  • Ah, Lem - Do widzenia
  • Announcement
  • Back from Thanksgiving!
  • Biography of yours truly...
  • Call to Boycott Circuit City
  • Can Eve Online be played casually?
  • Classic text-based games
  • comments now working!
  • Design changes finished
  • Happy IWD!
  • Happy New Year!
  • Holiday
  • Holiday
  • J.K Rowling
  • Last day of school
  • Latest resume
  • Light on the horizon!
  • Liminality
  • Linux certification
  • mackenty.org wins eSchool News award!
  • My first usenet post
  • New animation on the horizon
  • Off the Grid
  • Out of the Office!
  • Recharging my blogging batteries
  • RSS links for text-based games
  • Sept 11 2006
  • Some nice press attention
  • Thanks, Gary
  • That's a LOOOTTTT of bytes!
  • The nightmare that is learning Polish...
  • Thoughts and Prayers...
  • To understand Poland, you've got to understand Russia
  • Vacation!
  • We are coming for you....

• Teaching Diary

  • 1st graders and South Park
  • A stampede ...
  • busy day teaching
  • Digital image library solution?
  • Open Source in education
  • The real problem with American public education?
  • The Tethered Self

• Text-based gaming

  • Good text-based gaming links
  • RSS links for text-based games

  • Links

    • Good text-based gaming links