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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…

  • A Penny A Day

    Fellow GCT and all around awesome guy Adam Bellow is changing the world one penny at a time. And you can help. Click on the badge below to do something great today:

  • A Little Perspective: Teaching Basic iPad Skills to Parents

    I just got home from teaching a group of our parents basic iPad skills. I communicated my lesson through an interpreter which was a first for me. The translation delay took my brain some getting used to. What struck me the most about our parents tonight was the genuine eagerness to learn, the honest questions…

  • 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…

  • Feedback to Apple on Enterpise Deployment for iPads

    I sent this along to my Apple SE and Sales Rep today. After three weeks and 330 iPads, I’ve come to the conclusion that this is still bleeding edge stuff for Enterprise. iPad deployment is like PC deployment was back in the days before Ghost imaging. Painful. But I’ve got 384 happy kids with iPads…

  • 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…

  • Becoming a Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer – New and Improved

    After having jumped through all the required hoops, I finally submitted my completed Google Apps for Education  Trainer Certification application back in March. I’ve been waiting ever so patiently for my the email congratulating me on becoming a Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer ever since. So imagine my surprise when late last night I received the following email: Hello, Thank…

  • 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…

  • Tabcasting and Google Forms Flip Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century

    I just got back from ETC! 2011. This was my second year attending the CC CUE event and just like last year it was well worth the Saturday. Of the three sessions I attended, the one that really stood out was Ramsey Musallam’s session on Tabcasting. He’s got a radically common sense idea about how…

  • 2010 in review

    The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 1,900 times in 2010. That’s about…