An Edublog Nomination

I have decided to make a few nominations to the Edublog Blog Awards. I have always wanted to do this and so today I am.

Here are my nominations to the Edublog Blogging Nominations in the the following catagories.

Best individual blog Dangerously Irrelevant
Best individual tweeter Shelly Blake-Plock
Best teacher blog TeachPaperless by Shelly Blake-Plock
Best librarian / library blog The Unquiet Librarian by Buffy Hamilton
Best school administrator blog The Art of Education by Troy P. Roddy PhD
Best educational wiki FlatClassroom Project
The Best use of a PLN George Siemans
Lifetime achievement Steven Downes

Globalization Videos

He has always been a fighter!

Norm At Nite

 
A video post from a few years ago. I am still exploring Picassa and wondering why more people are not using it. This is so east!!!!

 

Just a photo I found today when I put Picassa on my home computer. It is of my daughter's high school graduation in 2008. I just thought I would put it up with Blog this feature.

Zac and Irbs---Student Podcast

A Guest Blog--

Kourtnee’s Korner: Bathroom Etiquette

Proper Bathroom Etiquette Rules. Rule 1: Place a toilet seat cover or toilet paper on the seat. Rule 2: Squat or sit, whatever floats your boat. Rule 3: Do your business. Rule 4: Clean up. Rule 5: If you leave anything on the toilet seat CLEAN IT UP!!! Rule 6: FLUSH the toilet. Rule 7: Courtesy flush. I am tired of walking into the bathroom and all of the stalls are unusable, when I really have to go. I have to take time, which I really don’t want to waste, to clean up after someone else. We are all old enough to know how to use the bathroom properly and how to clean up after ourselves, so DO IT!! How hard is it to clean up after yourselves?

Clocks, Clocks and more Clocks

The Rebellion goes on!!!

The day the music lived..........

Conor Malone and Robert came back to Nanny O'Brien's on a Saturday night this summer and on that night the music lived...the old Nanny's lived. The Guiness just tasted better! The battery was low on the IPhone so I didnt get a lot of music but here is a clip that unfortunately had Connor replacing a string. Still you have to love the fiddle!

A word from John Jay

I believe that the idea that the writers of the constitution would be in the Tea Party camp in contemporary American Politics is false. The convention of 1787 came together to reduce the power of the states in favor of a national government. There may have been some discussion about the exact nature of the national government, but there can be little argument, in my view, that they wished to establish a government that would dominate the states. In Federalist #2 John Jay writes:

Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government, and it is equally undeniable, that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers. It is well worthy of consideration therefore, whether it would conduce more to the interest of the people of America that they should, to all general purposes, be one nation, under one federal government, or that they should divide themselves into separate confederacies, and give to the head of each the same kind of powers which they are advised to place in one national government

I do not believe that Jay, Hamilton or Madison would be at all upset at how thing turned out!

Bills Gates argues University will disappear

BigBlue

---

NormAtNite Tops 6000 listeners.......

How did the Apple guy know................

"Apple of My Eye" - an iPhone 4 film from Michael Koerbel on Vimeo.

PG County Blues at the Zoo Bar

Another great night at the Zoo bar after eating Cod Head and several other interesting courses at a Korean Resturant in Alexandria on Duke Street.

Thing 2: Web 2.0 and My $.02 | Stories to Tell

Thing 2: Web 2.0 and My $.02 | Stories to Tell

Marc Prensky talks......

I have been very engaged with the work of Marc Prensky since I read Digital Game Based Learning a few years ago. Here is great interview with Prensky which highlights the core values of his thought over the years. He is much more accomodating to other viewpoints now a days without retreating from his positions. A kinder, smoother Marc........

A remixed Hamlet