Articles in Op Ed
Beware of the echo chamber
As my school district was preparing for a building levy back in November (which did pass, yeah!!), I talked to community members what they felt the chances for a new building were. Most of them …
Jamie Vollmer Keynote OSBA 2011 Capital Conference
MY COMMENTARY IS IN ALL CAPS
Author of “Schools can not do it alone”
Talk about our power. A little bit about the need for change.
Quote by Lincoln
Mold public sentiment
Others have done an excellent job of molding …
Formatting for the printed page is dead
The PrintShop
In the mid 80′s it seemed like the second most used program for the Apple II was Broderbund’s The PrintShop, right after that pirated copy of AppleWorks. For the first time, users could create …
FIrst impressions of the MacBook Air 11″
Since Steve Jobs blessed my MacBook Air and I received it two day early, I’ve had almost a week to investigate the 11″ MacBook Air. I opted to max it out, so it has 4GB …
My Apple Event predictions
Tomorrow Apple is holding an event to announce new products for the Mac. What will be announced is anyone’s guess, but here’s what my intuition is telling me:
A new MacBook Air is pretty much a …
Bought my 6 year old daughter an iPhone
My daughter is an avid reader and writer, so as she is preparing to go into 1st grade, I wanted to give her an outlet to publish online. What I did was set up a …
Top ten skills needed to succeed as a teacher (and technology)
photo credit: davidsilver
This article started out as the top ten skills needed to use technology effectively, but as I wrote the list, I realized that technology shouldn’t be separated out. As we proclaim that …
The Kindle DX is available for pre-order, does anyone care?
Today’s announcement of the Kindle DX, a 9.7″ version of the Kindle is being hailed as some sort of savior of the newspaper industry and a breakthrough for the college textbook market.
At almost $500 I …
Attention education vendors
After reading Miguel’s article The Bad PR List at Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org, it got me thinking about the vendors in the education community and some of my pet peeves. My biggest complaint with education vendors …
Teacher covers copy costs with ads
Ads on tests add up for teacher – USATODAY.com
“Tough times call for tough actions,” he says. So he started selling ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, $30 …
