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Bragging Time
We are a week in to our TEDx project, and my students have made their first posts on their blogs. It has been so much […]
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Everything Wrong With Internet Filtering
Ran into my first major problem with my TEDx project today. Well, I say “major problem,” but I really mean “minor but recurring problem requiring […]
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Technology is Not The End All
Thought this was worth sharing.
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TEDxWOHS Parent Responses
Yesterday, as you probably already know, I introduced the TEDx project to my students.. In addition, I sent an email to their parents that included […]
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Teacher’s Throwing Out Grades
Last weekend, I listened to Starr Sackstein (@mssackstein) talk with Nicholas Provenzano about the No Grades Movement. This isn’t the first time I’ve heard about […]
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TED Talk Project – A Student Experiment
As I enter my final weeks in the classroom, I find myself wanting to make a splash. Thanks to inspiration from Nicholas Provenzano (@thenerdyteacher) and his #NerdyCast, […]
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Cool Tool for School – EdPuzzle.com
Today, I spent some time using EdPuzzle, and I wanted to share my experience with it. EdPuzzle is a website that allows you to “Make […]
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Social Media in School
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about social media being used in school and in the classroom. There is great benefit to student use of […]
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Harsh Conversations With Myself
It has been an interesting year for me. For a couple of personal reasons (the details of which I don’t really want to get into […]
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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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What the Future Means to Writers – or – Some Advice to A Friend
A friend of mine said to me on twitter today, “Brad, kind of struggling lately with the idea of being a writer, given so few […]
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How to Setup Automatic Redundant Free Backup
So here’s the step-by-step that I promised a few days ago. For this, I will be assuming you use Scrivener, but as I said before, […]
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For Writers: How to Get Automatic Free Redundant File Backup
Today, I was clearing out some old Scrivener backup files and wasn’t paying as much attention as I should have been. Somehow, deleting one of […]
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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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Submitting to Agents – Or Querying: The 10th Circle
As I said previously, I have begun the Querying Process, submitting my query and such to literary agents in the hope of getting representation for […]
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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 […]
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10 Reasons You Should Do NaNoWriMo
As you all know, I’m a huge supporter of NaNoWriMo and The Office of Letters and Lights. They posted this on their blog today, […]
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askDavid.com Promotion
askDavid.com is a book promotion site that is GREAT for indie authors. I submitted my book to them a few weeks ago, and they posted […]
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