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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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  • Corippo’s Voice In My Head – Rigor

    Rigor came up in a conversation yesterday. Rigor is one of those words I have a hard time getting a solid grip on during a conversation. For some reason, my mental image of rigor in education has always been a bit slippery. My early experiences in education originally led me to frame rigor as meaning “More Harder” (i.e. let’s do…

  • Tech or Textbooks?

    This week, Eric Patnoudes posted a link to a list from the Harvard Business Review about being a change leader and pointed out that tech was nowhere to be found. In the education context it got me thinking about why #edTech. At a most basic level, Technology = Information Access. I think when we talk about…

  • Return of The Android (Project Fi Edition)

    If you’ve been following my conversion from iOS to Android, you may have picked up that it’s been a bumpy road. My wife and I have been on AT&T forever. We had a pretty good system going for a while. Every year, we would renew one of our Unlimited lines and I would get the…

  • iOS Strikes Back

    Ok, so I had a moment of weakness. The pull back to iOS was just too much. My wife and I were both having trouble adapting to the Android Keyboard (years of iOS had trained us to use the space bar and trust apple to complete the word correctly) and I missed the iMessage integration…

  • App Wars (Migrating from iOS to Android)

    One of the biggest concerns for me with switching to Android from iOS was the Apps. Over the years I have invested a lot in iOS Apps (a lot). I easily have several hundred and I wasn’t sure if I’d miss any of them by moving to Android. What I discovered is that I was…

  • The Giant Phone Awakens

    My conversion to the Android side continues… The Nexus 6P arrived last week. I’ve been using it (mostly) since the day I took it out of it’s very thoughtfully designed packaging. The first thing I noticed when comparing it to the Nexus 5X was how much more substantial the 6P felt. The reviews are right, the…

  • My Thoughts On Star Wars The Force Awakens [Spoilers]

    Ok, I saw the movie yesterday. We took the team to a 9am showing. Teambuilding! We saw it in IMAX 3D (or what I would call mini-IMAX). I’m not really a fan of 3D so I will be taking my kids to see it in good old fashioned 2D. If I could find a 70mm projector…

  • To Android or not to Android

    Ever since I upgraded my iPhone 5 to iOS 9, I’ve been frustrated by my daily phone experience. The situation had been deteriorating for a while, with daily Google Account access becoming so frustrating, I actually installed Outlook on iOS in an attempt to make email work on my phone. For me, my phone is where…

  • #CUERockstar Reflection – Day 3

    Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost I feel the same way about teaching with technology sometimes… I’m going to stick with the Tech as Tool theme for a bit longer because what I loved about Rockstar Admin Camp was the…

  • #CUERockstar Admin Day 2 Reflection

    I’ve been Han Solo’d Day 2 of CUE Rockstar Admin Camp started off strong with #edugrandpa Jon Corippo going all Captain Chaos on us with a book study by frayer activity. The frayer template is one of those simple little things I wish I knew about when I was teaching, because I would have been telling every one…