Twitter Is Dead; Long Live Twitter
Here is an article I don’t need to read again: a professor or teacher polls their classroom, discovers the students don’t use a social media…
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Social Media is the New School Newspaper
A principal recently asked me why project-based learning should involve the Web. It’s a good question. In education, an “artifact” is not something old, but…
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The Good Student Changes the Good Course
I call my courses meta-courses. I use the term to help me remember what I want to accomplish as a teacher. When I think of…
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A Newsletter for All Audiences
There’s nothing like a conversation to get the year started off right. I’m optimistic about 2018 because of the amount of work I’m producing. The…
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The Big Picture is in Our Heads
We bought one of the girls a train for Christmas and it brought together a lot of ideas for me. First, it was no surprise…
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I Hate the Word “Content”
I’m not fond of “material” either. I use them in conversation and writing, but not often. Both words make me think of polystyrene peanuts. They…
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The Internet According to Star Wars
I am a Star Wars fan. I saw the film in 1977 when I was only four-years-old and my family insists I didn’t move a…
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The Name Tags are Necessary
I hear it from both students and clients these days. They dismiss social media as narcissism, self-absorption. Social media is a messenger. It’s a phone…
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Hiding in the Movie Theater
In the film Almost Famous, the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman plays legendary rock and roll critic Leslie “Lester” Conway Bangs. Hoffman as Bangs has one…
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Christmas Cards Were the First Facebook
The wooden double doors from the kitchen into the dining room of my childhood home were louvered. Always open and pushed against the formal space’s…
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