AL DíA: STEM Tools, DIY Projects and More
Wow, I had a lot of fun putting this blog entry together on a subject that is near and dear to many people's hearts. I was trying for a blog entry about STEM toys, but failed miser
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AL DíA: STEM Innovators VIP Breakfast
On January 5, 2018, there will be a STEM Innovators VIP Breakfast in San Antonio, Tx. If you are free, you may want to attend. Here's the full text of the…
Artful Angles Engage
The older I get, the more discriminating I am when it comes to books and articles I read. I hate spending a single minute on a story that's going nowhere.…
My GoogleEDU and MicrosoftEDU Blog Entry Roundup
Over at TCEA TechNotes blog this year, I've written quite a few blog entries. Are any of you reading them?
Thirteen Insights for CTOs
Ok, I'm sure you are just dying to know what I've written about that Chief Technology Officers (CTOs), Technology Directors/Coordinators need to know about. I'm particularly please
AL DíA: Free eBook: DIY vs Managed Cloud Hosting
Check out a free ebook from Lambda Solutions. What intrigued me about the book was how closely it aligned with some of my own experiences hosting a learning…
AL DíA: Eight Second Storytelling
Today, you often have only about eight seconds to tell a story, or one second less than a goldfish.
AL DíA: Automation Hope
Hope in being hard to automate... The hardest activities to automate with currently available technologies are those that involve managing and developing people (9 percent automa
Enchant Your Ears Part 1- My Fav Audio Book Picks (Updated 1/2019)
Looking for some awesome stories to enchant your ear? Then you've come to the right place! I need content that's going to make my blood boil, make me laugh outright, and keep me en
Upcoming SATX Free Digital Transition Event 01/18/18
The Learning Counsel is organizing this event for area school leaders. They are offering the 6th edition of their Digital Education Special Report online [Systems Leadership
AL DíA: Automation Impact on Jobs
Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2014; O Net; McKinsey analysis. Four Fundamentals of Workforce Automation
AL DíA: Connecting with Parents
What a great idea! John Stevens (@jstevens009) posted this as a tweet :
AL DíA: Maker Taxonomy
When I first saw this maker education stages, it made me think of Bloom's Taxonomy. A little about the stages from Dr. Gerstein: My contention is that learners often don’t know w
AL DíA 2: BYOD- Should we?
It's too late to ask if we should do BYOD, isn't it? Many of us have already embarked on this journey , or implemented it. In my old district, the…
AL DíA: STEM Project Cards
These appear to be an interesting entry into free resources for teachers interested in STEM. ...sample cards from our new STEM projects box
More Hour of Code Resources
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Navel Gazing: Top Blog Posts
It's fun to dig around and see how one's blog posts are doing. I don't get to see stats for my day blog entries, even though that's a huge motivator. That's probably what finally p
Play with Remote Control for Google Slides
A few years ago, while giving a keynote or two at TxTIA12, I loved using an iPod Touch and iPad to pres
AL DíA: Hour of Code Resources
Here are a few resources for hour of code from a blog entry I wrote for TCEA TechNotes blog...read the complete blog entry, Made with Code
Oops. Another 39 Txed Schools Suffer Data Breach cybersecurity
Do you have kids enrolled in a school district? It wouldn't hurt to ask that district, "How are you safeguarding my child's personally identifiable information (PII)?" A good follo
AL DíA: STEM & Young Women
Would these approaches work for young men, too? I bet they would. I don't see a one that would have failed to entice me as a youngster. I remember having an intense interest at age
Anatomy of Tracking Links in Computer Science PRnewswire
As any blogger knows, you are going to get a few zillion emails advertising materials and information to share. Worse, you will get 2 3 follow up emails in case you "missed" the fi
AL DíA: STEM Job Stats
Amazing, isn't it? STEM jobs are growing and will go unfilled according to this report.
AL DíA: STEM Specialization?
I read an interesting statement today. Something along the lines of, "Forcing our kids to specialize in sports is bad for them." The [reasons why it isn't good for youngsters are