I am now almost finished with my second year as Director of Educational Technology at my current school, and my experiences have left me reflecting about the role of the secondary school in education. Over my thirteen years as an English educator, my classroom strategies changed as my understanding of […]
It has been a while since I have written a blog post, and that is mainly because I could not decide on a purpose for my blog. I am not an expert in any of my hobbies (well, maybe reading), so my blog is not a place where people would […]
As part of my experience with 3d GameLab, I was asked to watch a TED talk by David Perry, a video game designer, about how the real pull of new video games is emotion, meaning, purpose, understanding, and feeling. The underlying question in the talk is what value do games […]
25 Books To Read Before You Die Source: 25 Books To Read Before You Die I ran across this article on my Flipboard this morning, and I think I will take the challenge of reading these books and vodcast/blog about my impressions. I am normally not a fan of […]
This first installment of my “How-To” series will focus on Diigo, the social bookmarking and annotation site. When I first started playing with social bookmarking sites early in the century, I was a devoted delicious user. I looked at Diigo at one point, but it was primitive at the time, […]
I usually don’t talk about what I do for fun (like I have much time for “fun” anyway), but I think so much of my personality is tied in with my hobbies that I need to bring my “free-time” activities into my blog. The first one? Gaming. Game On! My […]
Challenge accepted! I’ll do it! I will immerse myself in the world of digital storytelling (DS), and I WILL ENJOY MYSELF! After watching DS in action at various professional development conferences and engaging in massive amounts of research, I decided to “enroll” in the DS106 MOOC that began as a […]
The snow-like powder puddles on your nose and lips with each greedy bite. -AMJ
I sit in silence listening for the gentle stirs of awakening. -AMJ
Listen to my words, And in the depth of your heart Make them part of you. – AMJ