Stop SOPA & PIPA. Start Teaching Creative Commons.

Dear Senator Reed, Senator Whitehouse, and Representative Cicilline, I would hope that you have been met with an onslaught of communications in the past several days regarding the current SOPA and PIPA bills. As a voting constituent, and maybe more importantly, as an...

Lessons Learned from a Creative Commons Search

Recently, I’ve done a lot of image searching for the EdTechTeacher blog. While it seemed like a great idea to choose a WordPress theme with an image slide show, it also meant that I had to find some images. In particular, I’ve been looking for pictures to...

Resources added to Diigo (weekly)

Kidsreads.com – Book Clubs Recently, I read a post looking for a kids version of Good Reads. This was the suggestion.  tags: bookclubs kids Good Reads This seems a lot like Shelfari. Could be a good way to increase motivation with older students who don’t...

Revisiting the "Comma Zone"

My first foray into using technology in the classroom came in 1999. Desperate for a way to help my 9th grade English students understand the content of the dust-ridden, antiquated text book foisted on me by my predecessor, the Director of Technology suggested that I...