On April 20th, a group of fellow EduTweeters and I will be presenting at the #140 Character Conference in NYC, organized by Jeff Pulver. A very interesting and informative Posterious blog post came through my Google Alerts for my name earlier this week describing the conference. The blogger, Alan Weinkrantz, had this to say: Jeff…
My 4-6th graders have been working Persuasive Essays for the last month. (While that seems like a long time, it is really only 4-5 class periods.) I decided to have them hand in their work using a drop.io dropbox rather than my server dropbox so I can grade their work from home. While playing around…
I’m not usually one to follow the crowd, but as I saw people tweeting out their ‘end-of-year’ blog posts, I figured that it might be a good idea, even if just for selfish reasons. 2009 has been a transformative year for me. It has marked a complete shift in my professional life and as a…
Last month I had the amazing luck to receive a tweet from a fellow educator, Gerardo Lazaro, who teaches at St. George’s College in Lima, Peru. He asked me if I was interested in doing an online collaboration project with his students. I immediately jumped at the opportunity. We weren’t really sure exactly what kind…