Each month I post a Panther Pointers in the Potty in each of the faculty restroom stalls.  I try to make these easy to read and contain information that will peak the…

I pitched twitter to my staff earlier this year and was met with unexpected resistance.  Or maybe it was that I was unprepared to answer the question "Why should I …

At the beginning of 2018 I wrote down a few things I would like to start doing this year in my job.   To be honest most of the things I wrote down were things I have b…

Image from Adam Rose/ABC My husband and I are big Idol fans from way back (season 3).  It's one of the few shows we watch together.   When Idol got rebooted I wa…

This week was not what I had planned.  After an unfortunate meeting with some asphalt I found myself having a little more down time on the couch than I anticipated.   Th…

I just finished reading 4 OClock Faculty , and one idea (of many) that resonated with me was to try one new thing each week,  - whether it was just asking questions, or …

Having left the conference a few hours ago I have been trying to process all the things i have learned over the past week.   There were so many cool tech tools, websites…

BreakoutEDU is new to my campus, but it is taking off fast!     Digital breakouts seem to be easier to do as we are not limited to group sizes based on the number of ph…

A few weeks back I was able to work with the 6th grade social studies classes using the design cycle and littelbits.  They were studying Southeast Asia and some of the e…

Back in January I ran across the article   Seven 3D Printing Lessons for Teachers .  I was looking additional ideas for us to use the 3D printer on campus in the academi…

What if I told you that online collaboration can be simple and could be done in a few minutes of a class period?  Really it can be done! Time is always a factor i…

As the IMMOOC course draws to a close I am grateful for being a part of it.   Through the last few weeks I have taken time to think through my own mindset about educat…

How might we measure the impact of innovative practices in education?  How do you know you are headed in the right direction?   I struggle with this question  all t…