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More Best Lists

Following up on my last post about Best Lists, comes more about a Best List.  This one’s not called a Best List, but rather the Top 100 Technology Blogs.  Really?  The top 100?  Who voted, who has a say?  It doesn’t matter really because after taking a look at some of the people on the [...]

I Hate When She Does That

I’ve been working on changing my password practice lately.  I wasn’t the smartest person with passwords and have been working on changing them slowly to be a little more secure.  When I got my new MacBook Pro about a month ago, I set it up with my new password system.  The other day, I received [...]

Competition & Choice

It’s Select Soccer Season in my neck of the woods.  For those of you who don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s the time of year when kids try out to be on “Select” soccer teams.  Starting at the U11 level, there are various levels of soccer play for kids.  Prior to this year, everything [...]

Sharing is Good

As you may or may not know, I’m the blog coordinator for the Wisconsin DEN blog.  My role on the Leadership Council is blog chair, which puts me in charge of posting content.  Last year, I had the occasional help of another member of the DEN LC to assist with posting to our DEN blog. [...]

New Theme

Well, you might have noticed a new blog theme, again.  After changing my theme about a month ago, I realized there was not a way for readers to leave comments on posts.  I emailed the creators of the theme, but never heard back so I decided to make a change.  I had a lot of [...]

My Neighbor’s Bribing My Son

My neighbor is bribing my son. And I’m completely cool with it. My neighbor, who works for a sports marketing firm, knows my son is completely into sports. My son’s 7 and is into baseball more than any other sport and is also into baseball cards. Perhaps it’s the time of the year, but regardless, the [...]

Relationships

My last post was about one of the students in my school. It’s these relationships with students that help us get through the day once in a while. It’s these relationships that remind us the good we are doing – regardless of test scores and grades. When I was writing about Austin, I thought of [...]

Florida’s Great, But…

I was in Florida the past week or so on Spring Break and spent some of my mornings reading the local paper.  The teachers in Florida are facing a pretty interesting future if a proposed bill (Senate Bill 6) gets signed by the Governor.  From what I read over the past week or so, it [...]

Gotta Keep Reading

A school librarian shared this video this our department last week.  It’s AWESOME.

ICE, ICE, Baby! (Part 2)

As promised in Part 1, here’s the wrap up to my presentation at ICE.
My session was scheduled from 11:45-12:30 in Salon II.  Early in the morning, checked out the room, which was isolated from most of the other conference rooms, hoping to get little insight into what was ahead of me.  Wow, the room was [...]