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I love technology and education. Maybe you like knitting. Cool. My thing is educational technology.

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This page lists all the entries in all the categories. Enjoy!



Blogging

(technical) Oh goodness, I'm using PERL.
10 Reasons you should care about the Common Core State Standards Initiative's Draft English Language
1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
Beautiful documentation
Becoming familiar with HTML 5
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?
Domains, hosts, and more!
Emerging software architectures and non-relational software
eschoolNews likes my comments about the NETP
Exceptional article on video game addiction
Experiential Learning and Technology
Expression Engine 2.0 Beta
Expression Engine and Drupal
Facebook and privacy
fail2ban
Good OS X video converter
Google RSS news reader
Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
Greatest email in the history of the internet
How do I use blogs in my classroom: securing a blogger blog.
How do I use blogs in my classsroom: an answer.
How do you teach web design in 2010?
HOWTO: reset lamp hours for a 600i series 2 unfi 45
I hate internet filtering
I'm off facebook
In response to the classroom of the future...
iPad = Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
More tools to combat cyberbullying
my word cloud - um, if you care
myspace, teens and education...
MYSQL: changing a field type to longtext
On Gawker and Passwords
Online cyberbullying - a real challenge for parents
Parents: your kids will probably see these movies soon. Beware.
Really impressive comment spam here!
repost: Do Teachers REALLY Come From The Bottom Third Of Colleges......
Site redesign - not just a blog
So you want to blog, eh?
Some nice press attention
State of the blogosphere
Thank you ISTE - one of the best blogs for June 2008!
The 10 moms doctrine
The best IT certifications are no certifications
The blur
The disadvantage of Always (The blur - part 2)
The Finnish
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The Many Hells of PDF's and PHP
The problem with URL shortening...
virtual private servers: an update
Want a great blog? do this...
What I want: Twitter group (categories) in an RSS reader.

Games in education

10 easy ways to miss the boat
2008 Conference Notes Games in Education Conference
9 Paradoxes of learning through video games & simulation
A COTS game with potential: SPORE
a good idea, a great idea
A new year and some new games
A stampede ...
An invitation to try computer games in your classroom
Answering serious questions about serious games
Balanced Gaming
Best way to learn programming for a 16 year old? Build a game....
Board games in the classroom?
Can Eve Online be played casually?
CEESA Minecrafting
Computer games during the summer
COTS game design that works
Criteria for evaluating games in education
Designing games
Designing video games helps kids learn?
Digital Games based learning article
Do you need more money? We need to win this thing!
Evaluting educational potential in a COTS game
Evidence, evidence!
Exceptional article on video game addiction
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Game Research - updated December 2009
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
Informal Learning and Video Games
Instructional Design and games in education
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Interviewed on podcast
Is Eve Online Educational?
John Kirriemuir does it again!
Know any good books on educational gaming?
meta-analysis shows games work
MMORPG's in education
My little existential crisis about COTS games....
New Games in Education custom search !!
New interview from the San Francisco Chronicle
News story: Video games help children learn
Paper and Pencil games
Podcasts feed finally working!
Poland goes PEGI
Presentation: games in education notes
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 2
Railroad Tycoon III in the classroom
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"
Teens video games and civics
Text based games in an after school program
Text-based games podcast
Text-based games with a group of 11 year old kids
Thank you Baruch
The fourth type of game - kagfs
The right circumstances for games in education to work
Three types of games in education
Um, EA? What are you smoking?
USA Today quoted WHO?!
Using Civilization in class
Violence and Computer games: a response
Virtual Worlds in education
What would you teach a group of 11 year old kids about text based games - part 4
Where is the game research?
Why do people play computer games?
Why dual booting Apple computers are a big deal in games in education
Why you tube, indeed.
Wiki help

Educational Tech

1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
7 highly effective Facebook habits
A $400.00 lightbulb
a $400.00 lightbulb - part 2
A $400.00 lightbulb - part 3 (final)
A day in the life of an instructional designer....
A disagreement on the iPad potential...
A trouble ticket success story: part 1
A trouble ticket success story: part 2
Alternative Assessment with technology
Always ask, never fix
An introduction to SAMR at ASW
Arne Duncan advocates open source
Average child spends 10 hours, 45 minutes per day using media
Balanced Gaming
Beautiful documentation
BECTA Report: The impact of digital technology
Being integrated and meeting technology standards
Better than the real thing?
Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 1
Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 2
Blogging and eFolios
BoinxTV - I'm a fan
CDW thinks technology adds value to education. And they have charts to prove it.
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Digital image library solution?
Digitally inclined: new research report from PBS
disabling private browsing: a pain in the neck
Discernment and EdTech
Earth From Space: collection of pictures
Ed Tech and Elementary School
Educational Network Security - part 1
Educational Network Security - part 2
Educational Technology in Public School Districts
Edward Tufte is a smart guy
Emerging software architectures and non-relational software
Emotional Intelligence and being a Director of Technology
Excel gradebook templates
Expression of Learning?
Fab-fi
Facebook in class isn't the problem
fail2ban
FAQ's and information centralization
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Games and compulsive internet use
Gifted Education and Technology
Google apps in three states
Google security whitepaper for schools
Google Wave - time sink?
Google: using shared calendars
Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
Great slideshow about searching - a question to Dulcinea, though...
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
How about using the technology for the actual learning rather than just to demonstrate it afterwards
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 do we know they know?
How do you effectively manage technology in an organization with low resources?
How do you evaluate technology coaches?
How do you teach web design in 2010?
How is twitter different than RSS?
How should teachers use technology?
How to integrate technology in schools?
How to keep track of good websites?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I like the cloud - sort of.
I'm finished at Hunter
If it's all online, what am I going to teach?
Impact of ICT in schools
Important Online Safety Technology Working Group report
In response to the classroom of the future...
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
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Interviewing for a data manager
iPad for education - Not yet...
Is 250 sheets of paper a year enough?
is twitter educational?
Is Wikipedia reliable?
It's not my job
It's quiet
Jenkins talks about myspace and the future of learning and teaching.
Just let them do their job
Kindle / ebook reader as electronic textbook?
Lazy Credibility?
Lesson Plan: Using wikipedia
Linux security
Mac vs PC
Major new edtech report. Some technology doesn't help math and reading
Middle School Laptops: a heavy burden?
More tools to combat cyberbullying
Moving an entire school to dropbox?
Moving from a drop-off model to an integrated model
National Educational Technology Plan - more stuff?
Naviance
Net Restore and niceness
New Games in Education custom search !!
New school year coming - my goals
oh wow...we might start using moodle
On blocking and banning and somesuch
On Gawker and Passwords
Online cyberbullying - a real challenge for parents
Online Learning
Online learning in k-12? Meh....
Open Source in education
Outsourcing a school website
Parent technology partnership is filtering at the router
Parents: friending your kids on facebook?
Parents: here's a template for technology contract with your kids
Parents: your kids will probably see these movies soon. Beware.
PBS videos on iTunes
Phase-change memory: something worth at least knowing about
Poland goes PEGI
Poland, here I come!
Presentation: the SAMR model of integration
Pretty CSS font styles
Professional development
QUESTION: moving to cloud-based storage
Questions in educational technology leadership
Quick! How can we make technology work in education?!
Quick! Part 2
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
repost: worst practices in IT
Rolling your own in education
school is starting. Jesus, I'm busy....
School websites and information overload
Schools Interoperability Framework
Security and the absense of reason
Seven things you should know
Should Instructional technology specialists be geeks?
Should schools totally ban electronic devices?
Simple questions about school data
simple searching
slashdot tackles educational technology
Slashdot: Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education
Smartboards: not so smart?
So many systems to manage....
Some nice press attention
Standardization
STEPS and international ed-tech
Stolen equipment
Student laptops in the classroom
Stunning: One-to-one computing programs only as effective as their teachers
Subversive technology integration
Summer in educational technology
Support
Tablet Frenzy - FAQ for the interested
Tablets, netbooks, and refrigerator's
Teaching advanced applications
Technology competencies for school administrators
Technology integration matix
Technology Professional Development
Technology Support Index
Technology Survey
Teens video games and civics
Text-based games podcast
Thank you ISTE - one of the best blogs for June 2008!
That Beautiful moment of aha!
That thing about Twitter - I still prefer RSS
The 10 moms doctrine
The 2011 Horizon Report released
The bandwidth usage of Youtube
The beautiful aha
The best IT certifications are no certifications
The best web 2.0 applications for 2010 (repost)
The blur
The case for using delicious
The Destiny of OPAL?
The Digital Citenzship Opportunity
The disadvantage of Always (The blur - part 2)
The doubt of the cloud
The Finnish
The four noble truths of technology and learning
The four noble truths. Explained, part four.
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The four noble truths. Explained, part three
The four noble truths. Explained, part two.
The internet rots your brain
The Many Hells of PDF's and PHP
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
The problem with URL shortening...
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?
Thou shalt not use stuff the Wrong Way
Time Magazine: are kids too wired for their own good?
Toolkits and tricks
Transitioning to google apps for education
Twitter and the same old passwords - I'm guilty of this also.
understanding your network
Using Expression Engine as a event / building and grounds request system
Web-based garage band? Yes please.
Welcome readers from M*U*S*H : updated with log
What do you think of virtual private servers?
What does an instructional designer do?
What goes in the image?
What I like about wiki's (and wikipedia)
What is a good school website??
What's out there? Why I think the future is in web-based services
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
Why Gaikai is important
Why I love doing my job: bake sales
Why podiums or wireless LCD's are better than plugging....
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology
Why Wikipedia?
Wiki's and education?
Windows: Math Fractals and Graphing program
Yet another reason to love EE
Yet another reason to love Google...
Your elementary school needs a supercomputer

HOWTO

(technical) Oh goodness, I'm using PERL.
Excel gradebook templates
Google: animated guides for google applications
Google: Managing google alerts
Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
HOWTO: Blackboard: announcements
HOWTO: Blackboard: assignments
HOWTO: Blackboard: books
HOWTO: Blackboard: Course Documents
HOWTO: Blackboard: course information
HOWTO: Blackboard: how to add and remove students from your courses
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: reset lamp hours for a 600i series 2 unfi 45
HOWTO: turn a normal name into a username with excel
HOWTO: Use google pages
HOWTO: using del.icio.us
HOWTO: using giffy.com
HOWTO: using YouTube in education
HOWTO: wiki's and you
It's quiet
Office: how to annotate a Word document
Office: how to password protect an office document
OS X HOWTO : finding recently changed files
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: record a narrative using garage band
OS X HOWTO: Saving to a specific folder
OS X HOWTO: use a usb thumb drive
OS X HOWTO: Using iCal
QUESTION: moving to cloud-based storage
Transitioning to google apps for education
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

Linux

Fab-fi
fail2ban
Linux certification
Linux security
rebootless updates? Yes please.
virtual private servers: an update
Why I love Ubuntu and my frustration at work

News

A trouble ticket success story: part 2
Average child spends 10 hours, 45 minutes per day using media
Balanced Gaming
Blacklists and you: some information
Discernment and EdTech
Domains, hosts, and more!
Games in education wiki
I'm off facebook
Last day of school
On Gawker and Passwords
Outsourcing a school website
Poland, here I come!
Welcome to the new site!
What the hell?!?
Wiki help

Personal

(technical) Oh goodness, I'm using PERL.
2004 professional goals
A perfect vacation
A trouble ticket success story: part 1
Ah, Lem - Do widzenia
Announcement
Back from Thanksgiving!
Balanced Gaming
Becoming familiar with HTML 5
Biography of yours truly...
Call to Boycott Circuit City
Can Eve Online be played casually?
Certified in New York!
Classic text-based games
comments now working!
d&d community site
Design changes finished
domain name problems
Domains, hosts, and more!
Emotional Intelligence and being a Director of Technology
Excuse me, Bermuda? Please pay close attention to me!!!
Expression Engine and Drupal
Google chrome for MAC
Greatest email in the history of the internet
Happy IWD!
Happy New Year!
Holiday
Holiday
I'm off facebook
In d&d 4e, can a dwarf throw-assist an elf over a wererat, and as the elf is flying overhead, shoot
J.K Rowling
Last day of school
Latest resume
Light on the horizon!
Liminality
Linux certification
mackenty.org wins eSchool News award!
More on learning HTML 5
my daughter is teething and our school's wiring closet - related events?
My first usenet post
MYSQL: changing a field type to longtext
New animation on the horizon
no, really. Use linux.
Off the Grid
On Gawker and Passwords
Out of the Office!
Parenthood?
Poland, here I come!
Poland, here we come
Polish Resume
Recharging my blogging batteries
RSS links for text-based games
Sept 11 2006
Some nice press attention
Summer in educational technology
Thanks, Gary
That's a LOOOTTTT of bytes!
The nightmare that is learning Polish...
The Sin of the Episcopal Church
Thoughts and Prayers...
To understand Poland, you've got to understand Russia
um, WoW?
Vacation!
We are coming for you....
What do you think of virtual private servers?
YES!!!!!!!
zomg, I am so tired my current favorite word, and the new thing I'm learning

Teaching Diary

1st graders and South Park
A stampede ...
Becoming familiar with HTML 5
Best way to learn programming for a 16 year old? Build a game....
busy day teaching
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Digital image library solution?
Experiential Learning and Technology
Expression Engine and Drupal
Fab-fi
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
How do you evaluate technology coaches?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I'm finished at Hunter
I'm off facebook
Lesson Plan: Using wikipedia
More on learning HTML 5
Open Source in education
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
repost: Do Teachers REALLY Come From The Bottom Third Of Colleges......
Teaching advanced applications
The 10 moms doctrine
The blur
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The real problem with American public education?
The Tethered Self
Um, I'm now the faculty advisor for the karaoke club...
What I learned today
What would you teach a group of 11 year old kids about text based games - part 3
Why I love my job
YES!!!!!!!

Text-based gaming

Good text-based gaming links
Hspace and Textual 3D space
Interactive Fiction after school program
Myrddin's Global Bulletin Board v. 4.0.6
Original fortran code for Adventure - part 2
Original fortran code for Adventure - part 3
Original fortran code for Adventure - part 4
Original fortran code for Adventure part 1
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 2
Review: Legends of Zork
RSS links for text-based games
Text based games in an after school program
Text-based games with a group of 11 year old kids
Transitioning to google apps for education
What would you teach a group of 11 year old kids about text based games - part 3

Twitter

Greatest email in the history of the internet
How is twitter different than RSS?
is twitter educational?
That thing about Twitter - I still prefer RSS
Twitter and the same old passwords - I'm guilty of this also.
What I want: Twitter group (categories) in an RSS reader.

Design

7 highly effective Facebook habits
A $400.00 lightbulb
a $400.00 lightbulb - part 2
A $400.00 lightbulb - part 3 (final)
A disagreement on the iPad potential...
Alternative Assessment with technology
An introduction to SAMR at ASW
BoinxTV - I'm a fan
CDW thinks technology adds value to education. And they have charts to prove it.
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Digitally inclined: new research report from PBS
Ed Tech and Elementary School
Edward Tufte is a smart guy
Emerging software architectures and non-relational software
Expression of Learning?
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Gifted Education and Technology
Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
Great slideshow about searching - a question to Dulcinea, though...
How about using the technology for the actual learning rather than just to demonstrate it afterwards
How do we know they know?
How do you teach web design in 2010?
How should teachers use technology?
How to integrate technology in schools?
How to keep track of good websites?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I like the cloud - sort of.
In response to the classroom of the future...
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Interviewing for a data manager
It's quiet
Lazy Credibility?
Middle School Laptops: a heavy burden?
Moving an entire school to dropbox?
Moving from a drop-off model to an integrated model
Net Restore and niceness
Outsourcing a school website
Presentation: the SAMR model of integration
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
repost: worst practices in IT
Rolling your own in education
School websites and information overload
Schools Interoperability Framework
slashdot tackles educational technology
Slashdot: Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education
Student laptops in the classroom
Tablets, netbooks, and refrigerator's
Technology integration matix
Technology Support Index
The 10 moms doctrine
The doubt of the cloud
The four noble truths. Explained, part four.
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The four noble truths. Explained, part three
The four noble truths. Explained, part two.
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
The problem with URL shortening...
The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?
Thou shalt not use stuff the Wrong Way
Transitioning to google apps for education
understanding your network
What goes in the image?
What I like about wiki's (and wikipedia)
Why Gaikai is important
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology
Why Wikipedia?

Gifted

Gifted Education and Technology

Leadership

1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
An introduction to SAMR at ASW
Average child spends 10 hours, 45 minutes per day using media
BECTA Report: The impact of digital technology
Being integrated and meeting technology standards
Ed Tech and Elementary School
Educational Technology in Public School Districts
Facebook in class isn't the problem
Frontline's digital nation documentary
How do you effectively manage technology in an organization with low resources?
How do you evaluate technology coaches?
In response to the classroom of the future...
Interviewing for a data manager
iPad for education - Not yet...
It's not my job
It's quiet
Just let them do their job
On blocking and banning and somesuch
Online cyberbullying - a real challenge for parents
Outsourcing a school website
Poland goes PEGI
Poland, here I come!
repost: worst practices in IT
School websites and information overload
Slashdot: Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education
Tablet Frenzy - FAQ for the interested
Technology competencies for school administrators
The 2011 Horizon Report released
The Digital Citenzship Opportunity
The four noble truths. Explained, part four.
The four noble truths. Explained, part two.
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
Toolkits and tricks
Transitioning to google apps for education
understanding your network
What's out there? Why I think the future is in web-based services
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology

platform

1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
7 highly effective Facebook habits
Arne Duncan advocates open source
FAQ's and information centralization
Great slideshow about searching - a question to Dulcinea, though...
I like the cloud - sort of.
Mac vs PC
Middle School Laptops: a heavy burden?
Net Restore and niceness
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
School websites and information overload
Security and the absense of reason
Tablets, netbooks, and refrigerator's
The best web 2.0 applications for 2010 (repost)
The Destiny of OPAL?
What goes in the image?
Why Gaikai is important

Security

disabling private browsing: a pain in the neck
Educational Network Security - part 1
Educational Network Security - part 2
Google security whitepaper for schools
Important Online Safety Technology Working Group report
Internet safety
Linux security
More tools to combat cyberbullying
On blocking and banning and somesuch
On Gawker and Passwords
Parent technology partnership is filtering at the router
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
Security and the absense of reason
Stolen equipment
The 10 moms doctrine
Twitter and the same old passwords - I'm guilty of this also.

Smartboards

Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
It's not my job
Smartboards: not so smart?
Why podiums or wireless LCD's are better than plugging....

Support

a $400.00 lightbulb - part 2
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
How about using the technology for the actual learning rather than just to demonstrate it afterwards
How do you effectively manage technology in an organization with low resources?
How to integrate technology in schools?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I like the cloud - sort of.
In response to the classroom of the future...
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
Is 250 sheets of paper a year enough?
is twitter educational?
It's not my job
Lesson Plan: Using wikipedia
Net Restore and niceness
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
Rolling your own in education
School websites and information overload
Should schools totally ban electronic devices?
So many systems to manage....
Standardization
Stolen equipment
Stunning: One-to-one computing programs only as effective as their teachers
Support
Tablet Frenzy - FAQ for the interested
Technology Professional Development
Technology Support Index
That Beautiful moment of aha!
The 10 moms doctrine
The bandwidth usage of Youtube
The Destiny of OPAL?
The doubt of the cloud
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
The Water Cooler Effect
The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?
Using Expression Engine as a event / building and grounds request system
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology
Your elementary school needs a supercomputer

Practical Advice

10 easy ways to miss the boat
2008 Conference Notes Games in Education Conference
Best way to learn programming for a 16 year old? Build a game....
Board games in the classroom?
Computer games during the summer
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Railroad Tycoon III in the classroom
Some answers to some common questions:
Thank you Baruch
The right circumstances for games in education to work
Using Civilization in class

blackboard

HOWTO: Blackboard: announcements
HOWTO: Blackboard: assignments
HOWTO: Blackboard: books
HOWTO: Blackboard: Course Documents
HOWTO: Blackboard: course information
HOWTO: Blackboard: how to add and remove students from your courses
HOWTO: Blackboard: introduction to the control panel
HOWTO: Blackboard: manging links
HOWTO: Blackboard: organizing folders
HOWTO: Blackboard: Staff information

general computing

HOWTO: reset lamp hours for a 600i series 2 unfi 45
HOWTO: turn a normal name into a username with excel
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

Google: animated guides for google applications
HOWTO: google: sending email from different accounts
HOWTO: Google: setting up groups in google (especially for teachers!)
HOWTO: Use google pages
It's quiet
Transitioning to google apps for education
Using Google documents

office

Excel gradebook templates
Google: Managing google alerts
HOWTO: turn a normal name into a username with excel
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 : finding recently changed files
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: record a narrative using garage band
OS X HOWTO: Saving to a specific folder
OS X HOWTO: use a usb thumb drive
OS X HOWTO: Using iCal

web 2.0

Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
HOWTO: Introduction to quickmaps.com
HOWTO: using del.icio.us
HOWTO: using giffy.com
HOWTO: using YouTube in education
HOWTO: wiki's and you
QUESTION: moving to cloud-based storage
Windows HOWTO: using flickr

Links

Good text-based gaming links
Hspace and Textual 3D space
Interactive Fiction after school program


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I make a difference in the life of kids. You want to tell me what's more rewarding?

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Resume

This is my full resume. It has all my work experience since I graduated from college in 1992, including certifications, professional memberships, and descriptions of my work.

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Polish Resume

This is my full resume translated into Polish. My wife tells me it is a literal translation, and as such might convey a slightly different meaning to Polish speakers.