This week we have just received an assignment that is more like a challenge. We have to create a “learning artifact”. Still not sure what that is, but he also gave us a bunch of resource links to go along with the challenge.…
Stars are Born!
I believe that we can engage children and have them truly own and demonstrate their learning success by incorporating multimedia learning in the classroom. This belief was reinforced by a few projects that I worked on with a class of Grade One students who I had the pleasure of working with for the past six weeks.…
This I Believe – To Work with Passion
Battle Plan for War on Poverty
I attended a STEM Education Summit in the Chicago area on Friday, hosted at Oak Park/River Forest High School. While the speakers at this Summit were not talking about the high school drop out crisis, which I’ve written about in past articles, they were talking about a workforce crisis that will result from baby-boomers retiring and not enough young people preparing to go into STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) related careers.…
You did *what* today?
Dear Daughter,
I am writing this blog post cautiously because you are 7 now but someday you may read it and be all like, “Mooooooooooooooooooom! Did you *have* to blog about this?!? OH. EM. GEE. You are *so* embarassing me!”
But it’s a great story. …
I want to dislike them, I do. But I can’t.
Lego toys are always a huge draw for my kids and my 11 year old son’s bedroom often looks like a Lego Factory threw up in there. We have regular Lego sets, Star Wars stuff, Harry Potter, Ninjago, random other sets and the compatible, yet different, Bionicles. …
I’m going to Stanford!
Sharing ideas. World-Wide Network-Building.
This year has been one of disruptive change for me and the Tutor/Mentor Connection. I turned 65 on Dec. 19 and while many of my peers are retiring soon (or already retired) I’m launching a new business to support the growth of volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in high poverty areas of mega cities like Chicago.…
Passage Explication for To Kill a Mockingbird – Chapter 1
QUOTATION EXCERPT from To Kill a Mockingbird:
The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house. Walking south, one faced its porch; the sidewalk turned and ran beside the lot. The house was low, was once white with a deep front porch and green shutters, but had long ago darkened to the color of the slate-gray yard around it.…
Australia – the film
This is a piece I wrote a few years ago after seeing the film AUSTRALIA. Last night I watched it again and decided to post this piece.
AUSTRALIA – “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”
~A Personal Response~
Every once in a long while comes an epic film that completely sweeps me off my feet.…