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K-12 Superintendent, reformed IT guy, educator, 1:1 evangelist, life long learner, father, husband, geek, ex self-propelled field artillery turret mechanic, GCT, CCTO, INFP

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  • The End of an Era

    Eight years ago I joined Le Grand Union High School District basically by accident. The startup I had been working for closed down so the wife and I decided to sell our beach condo in Oxnard and move to Merced to be closer to her family. Merced circa 2003 was no silicon valley and tech…

  • The Trouble With Tribbles (And iPads Too)

    Tribbles!   I’m not quite old enough to have watched the Star Trek episode featuring the fuzzy little critters when it first aired back in 1967. However, I do remember as a kid staying over at my friend Egan’s house playing Star Trek the board game while waiting for the midnight reruns of Star Trek…

  • I’m Back!

    Actually I’ve been back for a while but neck deep in iPads. Almost there, we give 300 out to students on Monday, iPad Monday. After that, I should have time to blog about the YouTube Teacher Studio, Google Teacher Academy and CUE Rockstar. Maybe. You can always check out my podcast with Danny Silvaif you…

  • I’m Going to the YouTube Teacher’s Studio!

    Apparently I am a cutting edge Valley educator. Six of us are going to the first Google YouTube Teacher’s Studio in Seattle, WA next week right before the Google Teacher Academy (Yes, I made it into GTA! Third time’s the charm apparently) – http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/07/12/2462498/6-valley-teachers-hone-video-production.html

  • How Many Computers is Too Many?

    Here’s what’s in the inventory presently, most recent first: iPad2 iPod Touch Nook Color CR-48 iPad iPhone 4 iMac 27″ iPhone 3GS Hackintosh Acer 1410 Dell GX520 SFF iPhone 3G HTPC Dell E520 Dell E521 Dell Inspiron 6400 Dell Inspiron 1504 I use the Hackintosh, iPad and the iPhone 4 daily. The wife uses the…

  • Google Teacher Academy (GTA) Seattle WA 2011

    What do a rooted nook color, a CR-48 and Le Grand High School’s new iMac lab all have in common? They all make an appearance in my Google Teacher Academy Application Video this time around.

  • Iteration is in Google’s DNA, Even the Apps for Education Team’s

    Today I received a response to my Google Apps for Education Certification email (see last post) and it reminded me of how new this whole Google Apps Certified Trainer thing is. The certification itself has been available for less than a year and the awesome web site for about the same. By the way, if…

  • Wanted: Effective Leaders and Managers for Public Schools and Teachers as Instructional Leaders on Campus

    What follows is a post I wrote in one of my Administrative Services Credential classes on Educational Leadership. The discussion focused around Superintendent’s hiring practices related to Administrator candidates that had taken the test to become Administrators versus those that had gone through a program from an accredited institution of higher learning to attain their…

  • Safe Places

    I just read Paul Yip‘s blog post “A Question of Vision” answering a question about how to keep Laptop Carts up and running. Two things struck home for me in Paul’s response. First, the honest conversations about how to use technology in the classroom are not happening enough. And Second, while my school has had…

  • The School Train

    School is a train.  I don’t mean one of those long slow freight trains bogged down by a hundred tons of steal and cargo.  No, school is a bullet train charging down the track, leaving the day 1 station on the lightning run to 180.  Once the school train sets off, altering the course of…