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I never really thought of myself as a writer. I've written in diaries all my life, but for no one else but me. I've written papers for all sorts of classes, but just to complete an assignment. What writing for a blog has changed for me is that I now write just for the enjoyment of getting my thoughts down and hopefully find an audience for my musings.

What I'm worried about is while I was a good student, I was never taught how to be a good writer. I know nouns and…

There's a new website everyday that will change your life, and that's great, but I think we're forgetting about the basics.

If you don't know how to use the tab key correctly to line up data in a table, you're always going to struggle. 

I teach my students how to create their heading using flush left alignment and a flush right tab. If you don't know what I'm talking about, keep moving. This is not for you.

I'm a firm believer in…

Sometimes it's hard to be a technology teacher.

Students don't know more about math than the math teacher. They certainly don't know more about science or history. That's not the case with technology. In some cases, they know more than us and we are assigned to teach them something.

What we mostly do is find out where they are, and try to keep up. We think we're so groovy because we're on Facebook. Well guess what? If you haven't noticed, they're not…

I graduated from art school a long time ago, so at one point I did know how to paint. I hadn't painted in quite a while though, so when I went to Paintnite and picked up a brush after such a long time, it stirred something in me. I want to paint again, but how do I go about it?

I bought a few supplies and got a bunch of books out of the library, but what really helped me was watching a few YouTube videos of painting techniques. It made me think about learning methods.…

Just this week I found the file where I have all the addresses for my Christmas cards. I pull up this file every year and print it out on labels to remove yet another human element from my holiday wishes.

What makes me stop and think as I go over the names and addresses is all that has changed in one year. Who I sent a card to last year who's no longer with us. The address of a Mr. & Mrs. who no longer are married. It makes me sad to think of all that is different this year. These…

Microsoft just announced that it will discontinue clip art in it's products and I'm in mourning. Those trusty graphics have always been a simple and lovely way to brighten up any page, slide, or spreadsheet. Now you will be sent to Bing to search online for graphics. I have three big problems with this.

1. When little people are using these programs at first, having a simple way to insert art is not as overwhelming as searching online for appropriate artwork. Young children need…

I love typefaces. I fell in love with them during my graphic design classes in art school. I think that some of them are so beautiful, they give the words they display more meaning. They are a subtle way to add a level of expression to the words they spell out. "I love you" written in Times Roman is a much different expression than when it's written in Edwardian Script.



I have my favorites, of course, as everyone does. The delicate shifts in weight and graceful…

I received some mail about the Hour of Code last year around this time. I had no idea what it was and I was barely interested in it, but I looked through it because I'm always looking for new things to add to my technology curriculum. I went to the website and watched the intro videos and started working through the activities. It took a few minutes, but I was hooked and I knew my students would be too. The Hour of Code introduces students to a skill they might not know they have; the…

Any planning for Christmas?  Find five amazing activities that are all Christmas themed and very educational for mental growth and development. Read First School’s latest blog to find…

Ten or fifteen years ago it was hard to imagine your regular school teacher creating and running his or her own website: it was hard work, requiring a lot of time, effort and specialized knowledge to pull off successfully. And its dividends were questionable at best – there wasn’t all that much a teacher could do with a website. It was a pastime for rare technology enthusiasts.

Not anymore – today creating a website is a simple and quick procedure. But why a teacher should want one?…

En Nueva York La MTA es muy importante porque mucho neoyorquinos usan el transporte para ir a ir a trabajar o a la escuela o talvez para ir a pasear y pasar un rato en manhattan. Se está preponiendo nuevas rutas para mejorar el servicio. Hay recomendaciones creativas y a bajo costo ante los desafíos del sistema de transporte. La solución podría ser buses rápidos y líneas de ferro carril abandonadas pueden ser una revolución en el transporte en la ciudad que…

El lunes , una mujer puertorriqueña llamado Nilsa Cruz Pérez , se convertirá en un senador por el Distrito 5, en Nueva Jersey. Convirtiéndose es la tercera mujer latina a ocupar un sillón en la Senate en Nueva Jersey. El sábado Cruz Pérez recibió el respaldo político del comité del Partido Democrático del Distrito 5 NJ, por votación unánime. " Estoy orgulloso de representar y legislar sobre las necesidades de mis electores ", dijo Cruz Pérez. El legislador , quien actualmente dirige la…

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Según las noticias de Chicago indica la Directora de la escuela Charter Jhonson College Prep. En donde estudiaba  el joven Demario Bailey de 15 años  fue muerto a tiros el pasado sábado  En donde se considera la violencia  esta llegando a tal punto que las madres considerarían y no les importaría una ley marcial para poder  poner en orden. Esto ocurrió durante un robo a las 12:40 pm en la cuadra 100 W 63rd al sur de la ciudad de Chicago .Según su madre este muchacho…

El articulo que yo escojies habla sobre la gente indocumentada y el cambio que tienen en los Estados Unidos. Presidente Obama ha dicho que va a pasar una nueva lei sin que el congreso lo aprueve. Si la lei es pasada esto ayudara a cuatro millones de indocumentados a ser legales en los Estados Unidos. Muchos estan preocupados como esto va a cambiar la economia. Se dice que esta lei va a crear nuevos travajos y ayudar ala economia. Alex Nowrasteh  nos da 3 diferentes formas que va ayudar ala…

La obesidad es algo que se preocupa mucha gente en el mundo. Por los extendidos de los restaurantes de comida rápida que no para de crecer, el Estados Unidos es conocido como el país con lo mas gentes con obesidad. Cuando no miran lo que comes y no comes saludable es cuando vas a comenzar a subir de peso. En este articulo en Dallas, Texas los residentes mejoraron sus condición de salud más que cualquier otro estado en…