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“Should jailbreaking cell phones be part of my research project, ‘Miss’ Vicki?” said the eager Digiteen student as if a light bulb had just gone on.  “Tons of people are …

Sorry my PC was a slow boot and the ISTE wifi won’t connect to my laptop, so it took a moment to take notes.  This session is with Mike Muir, …

The first day of school was today and it was crazy for me — as a teacher, 5 classes and 1 homeroom – with my IT hat – making sure …

Why don’t you jump on over to In Need of a Base Case blog by Leigh Ann Sudol and answer her question about computer science education (Hat tip to my …

A big hat tip to Eric Marcos, sixth grade math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in California. His video overview of the work of his students is inspiring He and …

Doug Johnson’s recent post is too important to pass up. Countless times, people have told me that itunes, youtube, google video are being blocked solely for bandwidth reasons. Not any …

Sometimes I come across efforts and innovation and I just have to say, “YES!” they get it! So, I’m giving another Cool Cat Teacher Award to the librarians that are …

Sometimes I just want to reach through the Internet and give a super big High-Five, hug, and “yahoo” all at once. This is how I felt when I read about …

I made the decision to install Office 2007 knowing that the textbooks aren’t available yet. We’ve been comparing and contrasting Excel XP and Excel 2007 and creating our own textbook …

I’m a little nervous, this is my first post on the new blogger. Let me know if there are any glitches! My tenth graders select a “major”You may wonder what …