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Teachers Are The Enemy

I rarely listen to the radio, but since I’ve moved back to New Jersey, I’ve been doing a lot of driving since my new job is located 2 hours north of where I’m currently staying. Over the last few days, a radio advertisement has been playing that got so annoyed that I had to [...]

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Teaching with Google Voice

If you missed the announcement yesterday, Google Voice is now available to everyone in the US. Google Voice is an outstanding service that I’ve been using for about a year. In short, when you sign up, you receive a phone number that you can direct to any of your phones at any time. Furthermore, [...]

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Developing Passion: Lessons Learned From Soccer

I am not exactly what one would call a sports fan. While I recognize and respect how much my compatriots tend to enjoy American football and basketball, I always found myself reading a book. The one sport that I do enjoy watching is soccer/football. I’ve been a referee for 13 years as well as [...]

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Developer Wanted!

A few months ago, I developed a beta of a new site called Social Sig For Me. It is a web app that creates visual signatures of all your social networks for emails; it can also be used for blogs. You can see an example in the “My Social Networks” block on my right [...]

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Who Do You Let Into Your Class?

I have to give credit for the idea behind this post to my friend and science/Chinese teacher Adam Taylor as well as to Mr. Keenan for getting me thinking about it again. I am only teaching one period next year (or at least that is the plan at the moment), which is great because [...]

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#WhyBlog - Why I Write

I read a reflective post by Will Richardson this morning on his nine years of blogging (Congratulations Will!). His post got me thinking about why I write myself. I am quickly approaching the one year anniversary of this blog and the tone and direction of the site has certainly changed since my inaugural post.

My [...]

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Goodbye Facebook

Well, I just took the plunge. I deleted my Facebook account. I didn’t deactivate it; I deleted it. It will be deleted after two weeks of non-use now (This should be a simple delete button). Hopefully, Facebook deletes all of my data off of their servers, although I have my doubts. While I realize [...]

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My New Job

I just had an interview for a new job today. I already had an excellent job lined up, but this one was only 2 hours away from my family, so I thought it worth at least going to the interview. The position has the lofty title of Educational Technology Specialist. I interviewed with both [...]

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Playing to Our Strengths

Right now, I am watching my young daughter play with her grandmother and great-grandmother. Because we haven’t been around family much, I find myself offering suggestions to which they reply, “We have done this before.” This reminds me of a conversation that I had earlier this week with Patrick Larkin (@bhsprincipal).

We were discussing ways [...]

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How Twitter Saved My Career and My Family

I admit, the title of this post may be a tad hyperbolic. However, many people have asked me what I get out if Twitter and I would like to address that question. Now, I don’t believe that one has to “get” anything for an activity to be worthwhile. I have experiences great benefits, both [...]

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