by Dawn | Dec 27, 2013 | technology
I’m the proud owner of a gaming system. It’s a hand-me-down gifted by someone who couldn’t believe we didn’t have a gaming system. It was as if he found out we didn’t have food or had only one pair of socks to share between us. He had...
by Dawn | Jul 11, 2013 | business, self-improvement
All my really smart friends were posting about the Tile. When my really smart friends post, discuss or tweet the same thing, it gets my attention. One of the best ways to be successful in life is to pay attention to the smart folks–it’s carried me this...
by Dawn | Jun 27, 2013 | Teaching, Uncategorized
School’s out for summer. But will my grammar return? Will I be left with words and phrases like “conversating,” “presentating” and whatever you call the verb tense that includes “be gettin’?” Will I recognize that nouns...
by Dawn | Feb 13, 2013 | education reform, satire, Teaching
There. I’ve done it. I’ve ordered business cards. I promised my partner in crime, a person we’ll call “Shawn,” because that is his name, that I would leave the ranks of losers and get them made. We were at our Educator-Entrepreneur...
by Dawn | Dec 15, 2012 | family, organization, parenting, satire, Teaching, technology
Yesterday I made a strategic error in lesson planning. I wanted some old-school fun that disguised learning. Some “edutainment.” I needed the quickest of projects that showed mastery of the Bill of Rights, synthesized some research, and didn’t look...