This scares and and saddens me:But what a great discussion tool

Real-time stats on global issues:

http://www.worldometers.info/ and http://www.stopthehunger.com/

Why I like teaching

Refer to http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/07/index.html

"Richard Florida calls [teaching] a ‘creative class’ job – one that requires autonomy, independent judgment, creativity, innovation, creative problem-solving, and, yes, fluency with digital technologies. Creative class jobs are facilitated and enhanced by digital technologies, not replaced by them (as often happens with service or working class jobs"... and that's why i like teaching!

Social Networking: What to do?

This summer I have pondered the idea of permitting students to use social networking sites, since this is the 'world' they communicate in. Most students have social networking sites regardless if schools permit it or not. My thought has been that if our school can create an internal site might that be a way to disuade the use of proxies - or just plain stop the complaining. Or maybe we could schedule times during the day that students can view their sites - under strict supervision - and I mean surrendering their user/pswrd. On the other hand, perhaps social networking, like many social activities can be done outside of school hours. I mean, can't a student go 6 hrs without social newtworking? Truly, why is social networking considered so evil. How is it worse than students passing notes in school? Ahhhh...what to do?

Read the debate at : http://www.economist.com/debate/index.cfm?action=summary&debate_id=3

Read the following link: http://www.dangerouslyirrelevant.org/2008/07/index.html

free tech tools for udl

http://teachingeverystudent.blogspot.com/2007/06/free-technology-toolkit-for-udl-in-all.html



After some down time i have figured how i might teach come fall.

vids

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70j92LJjhNE