After 9/11, we watched children build wooden block towers and crash them down. Children of all ages, working through the unthinkable images they’d seen and heard about.
On Monday, after the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, I remembered those block towers and watched children play again (I’ve been long term subbing as a team teacher in [...]
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I’m looking forward to a year of honing my teaching skills and catching up! Last year was a year of “immersion” learning: learning of development, marketing and admissions skills at the small school where I work. It was exciting and exhilarating to see my tech skills pay off in ads and postcards–heck, I even scripted [...]
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OK, so I’m off in the woods of Maine with my family and our internet access is a phone line whose connection is so poor it can’t even top 26K! Eldest son has been writing and editing and resolutely slogging through using his publisher’s project collaboration site to submit his work, youngest son has [...]
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My children have led me into new uses of technology ever since they were little. It’s happened again!
The Back Story
12 years ago, when we brought my two older boys away from school for half the school year, to rural New England, we learned how to get a computer in the public library to [...]
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I wonder if this will add communication value? This free version can record up to 60 seconds, and my posts are too long-winded for that! But, pegged onto a sidebar, it might be a way to attract comments…
Anyhow, here’s my first voice avatar. I’m putting her in the sidebar–if this works.
UPDATE: It [...]
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I came across two things recently, each of them instantly made sense to me.
First, this brave young man’s Eagle Scout project as pointed out by Karl Fisch on his blog:
“First, please download and watch this movie (18.4 MB, 11:36). Then think about how often we stamp “can’t” on somebody’s forehead.”
The Fischbowl: Ability Awareness
Second, this [...]
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