Random Thoughts
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Getting Personal – A Story of Life Meets Classroom
My mom died last week. I had just finished story time with my son and was prepping a slow cooker lasagna for tomorrow’s dinner when […]
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Students Will Never Understand Their Place
If you listen to my podcast, you’ve probably heard that I am going to a new school this year, and in my area, students are […]
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My Time on A Word In Progress
After I asked him to be on my show (Episode 19), Derek Rhodenizer asked me to be on his show, A Word In Progress. This […]
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Disconnected Day
Anyone who know me, knows I’m a technophile. I’m an instructional technology coach, a constant Twitter user, and podcaster. I Snapchat most of my life, […]
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My Time on the Personal Playlist Podcast
I had the amazing honor of being asked to be on Noa Daniel’s Personal Playlist Podcast (BTW, notice I didn’t say “recently”. Because this post […]
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I’m Done Holding My Tongue In Class
It only seems fair to start this post with an admission. I am a gun owner. In the past, I was even a member of […]
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I Know Just Enough To Fake It
I am an expert in nothing. Popular advice about building an online presence, a blog, a podcast, or even a twitter account, is to make […]
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VoicEd Gratitude Exchange and Holiday Special
Our VoicEd Family is celebrating the holidays by doing a gift exchange, and we are giving the gift of thanks! No money, no gadgets or […]
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Las Vegas Thoughts – Change We Can Make
58 people are dead in another of a myriad of senseless attacks on innocent people. And like every other time this has happened, we are […]
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High School Football Fan – A Troll or a Patriot?
It’s the Friday Night Lights time of year, and among many of the “other duties as assigned” for me is being at the games to […]
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The Connected Educator Back-to-School Blues
Most teachers lament returning to work. While parents are ready for their little darlings to stop harassing them every hour of every day about going […]
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Lamenting the Loss of Audio
After Jennie Magiera talked so passionately during her ISTE Keynote about telling our students’ stories, and our true stories, I decided that I would make […]
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Teacher Appreciation Week – Just Say Thanks
As most of you should be aware, this week has been Teacher Appreciation Week. While I appreciate the nice little gifts that our administration gets […]
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Audiobooks: Are They Really Reading?
Despite what the title may imply, this post simply will not answer that question, partly because I don’t actually have an answer and mostly because […]
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Time Travel – Or – How to Make a Blog Post with Next to no Effort
So I really don’t know what the long term purpose of this blog will be, but for today I hope to make some people laugh. […]
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New and Used Blog
Recently, I started submitting some of my work to literary agents, and it is a long, tiring, stressful process that I will most likely delve […]