Wow! I just came across a great resource via Free Technology for Teachers Blog: Google Advanced Books Search. Up to this point, if I’d wanted to find an online book, I’d just do a normal search for the book. Using Google’s Book Search is a much more powerful option. Instructions: Go to <books.google.com>. Click Advanced Search [...]
Principals and other leaders of various stripes discover early on that everyone in their school or organization (or family) is not always going to agree with them. Within any group of humans presumably moving toward a common goal, there will be Resisters. As with leaders, Resisters can come in many flavors. In my experience, there [...]
I know I’ve been posting a lot lately about Google products, but I was compelled to post once again after seeing the video below illustrating Google’s speedy browser, Chrome. (Hat tip: Mashable) I was struck, not by the features-set showcase (with which I’m already quite familiar as a daily user), but by the beautifully and [...]
Mnemonics are memory devices we use to make facts or processes stick in our long term mental storage. They can be quite useful, and yes, sometimes fun. (One of my favorites is one I created myself: The formal Korean greeting is “ahnyong hashumnika.” I was able to memorize the expression with the silly English phrase [...]
Mashable today published results of a Google survey asking Wave users (of which I am one), “What do you like and dislike about Google Wave?” I have to agree with the consensus that while I love the concept, I cannot currently do anything with it because there are not enough of my friends connected. My guess [...]
The more I read, the more convinced I am that the best tool for our school’s communication and collaboration is Google Apps, and the FREE package is getting better all the time. Right now, my school is using webmail hosted by the same company as our website. Apart from that, admin and teachers are collaborating [...]
Informative TEDTalk here about how current communication technologies are not driving us apart; rather they’re bringing us together. I can relate to this personally. Since June, the powers that be in China have been blocking Facebook, Twitter, Blogger, YouTube and a host of other social networking sites. As a result, I was connecting much less [...]
Over the summer I had the absolute pleasure of participating in a course at the Principals’ Training Center for International School Leadership (PTC), and I have to say, it was the most valuable–and intensely demanding–professional development I have received in 18 years as an educator. The course title was “Creating and Organizing an Effective School,” [...]
Whether it’s due to perfectionism, some sort of latent guilt-complex in my DNA, or mommy not loving me enough, if I don’t blog for a few days, I’m overcome with a sense of nervousness and agitation. If I don’t post for more than a few days, my pathology approaches scratching-my-eyeballs-out levels. Such is the case [...]
Richard St. John’s TED talk below really resonated with me. I don’t know about you, but there have been many times in my life when I have achieved a modicum of success only to lose focus and have to begin climbing the ladder again. At times I have let things slip to such a degree [...]
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