The National Council on Teacher Quality released a study on the quality of undergrad and graduate teacher preparation college programs at colleges and universities throughout the United States. There has been some discussion on Twitter and blogs about the validity of the study. According to the article posted at Inside Higher Ed titled "Teacher Ed […]

Wednesday, July 10th at 10am is my presentation for the Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teachers (CAMT) 2013 in room 006C. My presentation is listed as a secondary program but can apply to a variety of grade levels and mathematics topics. Although labeled as Curriculum and Assessment, there are many more uses that cell […]

The webinar series that I co-host with Dr. Peggy George and Lorna Costantini called ‘Classroom 2.0 LIVE‘ was nominated for an ‘Edublog Award‘ in the ‘Best Open PD/Webinar/Unconference’ category! We are so honored that people thought of us, nominated us and have already voted for us! I KNOW we have the BEST webinar participants on […]

Many educators teach students how to code and program using Scratch. Scratch is a coding program created by MIT for students to use to create a variety of applications and programs. I don’t understand programming that well and did not excel at it in my college courses. Although programming isn’t my forte, I was able […]

Filemail is a new service that I just read about on MakeUseof.  Filemail allows you to send very large files for free to anyone via email. The free account limits files to 30 GB, if you can call that a limited file size! There are two other account types that allows you to send more […]

As each Christmas holiday approaches, bittersweet memories arise of holidays past, Christmas breaks when I was teaching, and the special homemade gifts I received from students. As Christmas is a time of lights shining brightly, I get that same feeling when the ‘light’ comes on for students academically as well. This has been an especially […]

Holiday wishes from the Amazon cat, Snugs! This is how the Christmas wish was made. Cute behind the scenes video of how the wish was created if you like cats (like myself)!

Tonight is the second webinar in the SAT Bootcamp sponosored by The Learning Liaisons.com. Normally each session is $25 but tonight the session is FREE to all participants wanting to join. If you would like FREE access for your child, or student’s of yours, for TONIGHT’s SAT Boot Camp at 8pm EST, use the promo […]

I just finished writing my first book and am still working on the editing phase before we self-publish/publish the book in its final version. As I was thinking of what I project I was going to start next, I decided I would poll readers to see what topic would be of interest to them. If […]

Over the past five years, I have contacted many people to join me a guest presenter on Classroom 2.0 LIVE (#liveclass20) and now both Classroom 2.0 LIVE and The Learning Liaisons.com. Last Saturday, Classroom 2.0 LIVE tried a new format called "Open Mic" time (recording: http://live.classroom20.com/1/post/2014/02/open-mic-blended-learning.html). I was celebrating Valentine’s Day on Valentine’s Day for […]