Cooked On Education

Have you ever heard one of nightmare stories about someone who has been living in a house full of trash and stuff stacked up to the ceiling? Well, this is me when it comes to email. I never delete emails. Never. I have several email accounts. I have one account that [...]

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This morning at 2:31, my wife gave birth to a perfect baby girl. Hannah Rae is 7 pounds 2 ounces, 19 and 3/4 inches long. Both mother and child are doing great!

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This week’s edition of the Wicked Decent Learning podcast features a discussion on teachers as professionals, reviews and links to some popular blogging tools. You really need to check this show out. It is obvious that Jeff and Dan are having a good time when they record it and they always seem to [...]

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PicLens is a very cool plugin for your browser that takes images and creates a 3D Wall of images.
From their web site:
PicLens instantly transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for viewing images on the web. Photos will come to life via a cinematic presentation that goes well beyond the confines of the traditional [...]

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Last night, for some unknown reason, I was unable to access my blog. Here is a tool that would have helped me. Down for everyone or just me lets you enter in a web site that you are trying to access. One click and it tells you if the whole site is [...]

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From their web site:
Many Eyes is a bet on the power of human visual intelligence to find patterns. Our goal is to “democratize” visualization and to enable a new social kind of data analysis.
We all deal with data that we’d like to understand better. It may be as straightforward as a sales spreadsheet or fantasy [...]

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I just came across this awesome video done by some students at Kansas State University (kudos to Richard Byrne over at Free Technology for Teachers for pointing it out). In it, the students demonstrate in a very real way how they have evolved as learners and how education struggles to escape the 19th century. [...]

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Wicked Decent Learning is a weekly podcast by Dan and Jeff, two teachers from Western Maine. Each episode features a conversation about a topic in education. This week it is about the ups and downs of group work in schools. Other segments include technology integration, a weekly book review with tips on [...]

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This year at my school, there is a small group of teachers who have participated in monthly, half-day professional development sessions. These trainings are centered around integration of technology in the classroom and have been provided through an eMints grant. Starting last month, our sessions have been facilitated by Jim Moulton. Jim [...]

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One of the podcasts that I listen to regularly is Leo Laporte’s This Week in Tech or TWIT. Now a lot of the stuff that they talk about is way over my head, but I enjoy listening to it for the discussion of happenings in the tech/internet world. There is also the chance [...]

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