Musings on Education, Technology, Pop Culture, Religion & Staying Curious
I can’t tell you how many times when I was working with frustrated sixth grade boys that I wished I could have directed their energies to something constructive, like playing music. I knew what it had done for me when I was in high school, but generally felt like it wasn’t my place to make [...]
You never know what you might get when you ask students to share their first memories of being touched by music. One of my student posted this video. I can’t help but smile thinking about all of the times when music has been the one element in my life that connects me to who I [...]
This past month I heard from a former student, a music teacher, who had just heard that her contract was not being renewed for the next year, and this after she’d just moved to the new position thinking that this was a place where she could really do some good. My last two-years teaching at [...]
I have a bookshelf full of music books and binders of music that I’ve been gathering for some time. When I first got my iPad I realized that it was well past time to retire the binders and books. At first I just took songs that I’d already had stored on my computer, converted them [...]
This past week, during my class session with my students I decided to play some Jonathan Coulton songs while my students were answering poll questions about the book that we’re reading, The Art of Possibility. “A Talk with George” popped up and it seemed so appropriate for a song about making the most of ones [...]
When I reopened my bible in 2003 after being “away” for 15-years, the world had changed significantly. I’ve written about this before, that the whole bible-study thing with computers really appealed to my geeky side. And at first, before I was ready to find a church, I naturally turned to the web to find podcasts [...]
I can’t tell you how much I love this story. I was this kid and to this day get ribbed to death by family members for trying to make things with cardboard and tape all through my childhood. Rockets, cities, clubhouses, you name I tried to build a version of it using cardboard boxes and [...]
This post is based on a portion of the talk on the mobile-tech invasion of our classrooms that I gave at CUE@macworld2012 this past January. Enjoy. Speakers notes and references following the video.
Google’s done it again, taken a nascent technology and made it news. Silicon Valley gadget-cheerleader, Robert Scoble spotted Google founder, Sergey Brin, wearing the pictured device (right-top) at a Silicon Valley event. Scoble reportedthat he saw a light being emitted from the device, but Brin declined letting Scoble dawn the glasses himself, so the unit’s [...]
8PM – Waiting for my MRI for a possible pinched nerve that’s interrupted my life and my sleep for over six weeks. Tricia offered to drive me for the scan and is sitting next to me cruising the web on her iPad. Life has certainly changed in the past 16-months. I was thinking about the [...]
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