I’ll be presenting at a few events between now and the end of the year. In looking at my schedule like this, it’s actually kind of crazy. If you’re attending any of these events and see me walking by with my face in my phone, be sure to stop me and say hi! CapCUE Tech…

Is it common to do silent reading along with a CDROM in elementary classrooms? Apparently it is something they do in our district (where my daughter is in 3rd grade). I’m wondering how reading along to a CD helps kids read? How is it even considered reading? If they had done this when I was…

Power went out at the District Office (DO) today at around 5:30pm. The outage affected a large area of our community. With only 25 minutes of backup battery time on our servers, we only had a few minutes to shutdown everything. At least we had that time. No, we don’t have automated shutdown scripts in…

Found this today while I was doing some folder clean up. To think I used to be responsible for all this big iron, with a duplicate setup for development and staging too. These were the first SQL Clusters, SANs, Load Balancers and PIX firewalls of my very own. Oh, the good old days…

In a recent post titled, In A Perfect EdTech World, I said I would give every teacher an ubermixed ultrabook. Now people that know me know that I took Le Grand Union High School District teachers from Windows Desktops to MacBook Pros a few years ago and I advocated for MacBooks for every teacher at East Side…

Saw this on twitter today – http://www.teachthought.com/learning/21st-century-learning-is-not-a-program/ “Many people tend to associate 21st century learning with digital technology.  This is an incomplete perception because 21st century education goes beyond mere trinket tools of the trade. Rather, it is a way of thinking- a rationale about what educators do and why they do it.” And it…

I was saving this title for another post because Flash Gordon is one of my top ten favorite movies of all time, but I’ve reached that frustration point where I need to write and the title was on my mind, so here it goes. Why am I frustrated? Well, I’ve been working on a technology…

Amazing. My Do Together vs. Do In Order Alice How To Video has over twice as many views as my rebootED interview with Dan Pink. Crazy. Even crazier, my Bredford Cart iPad Activation video has 5X the views of the Dan Pink video. I thought the Dan Pink interview was really good. Maybe I’ve got…

I was recently asked how best to store mobile devices for summer. Here’s the answer I gave: As summer approaches consider how your mobile devices will be stored over the long break. Devices should be completely powered off and stored securely, either in a locked cart in a locked room or in a locked cabinet.…