Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts

It’s been struggling lately. It’s a couple of years old.  I can’t say what generation it is, but it would hold 60 gb.  Not a video ipod either, but one I had become VERY attached to.  It had music, audiobooks, pictures, podcasts, and more on it.  I will miss driving to and from work listening [...]

I shared with a small group of faculty & staff who just happened to be in the library while I was “introducing” myself to kids that the mp3 player or iPod could be used to hold audiobooks. Little did I know I was the talk of the group, who suddenly began conversing about taking back [...]

Today at school as I was sharing content from my iPod to classes, a discussion ensued regarding the legality of downloading songs from Limewire. This is a file sharing site, and allows members to share their files. I gather from discussions today in class that kids just about everywhere are using the site to download [...]

As I read through the twitter from last night around 11PM  through until 2PM today, I am shocked and dismayed that another tool has been discovered and shared, that of WIZIQ.  Several of my twitter friends have already played around and experienced it, and yes I did say “played.”  One of my virtual friends has [...]

Carolyn Foote from the blog Not So Distant Future is asking the blogoshere to point her to school administrators who blog. Since I just did some of this back in June 2007, I will point her to that link, but also add some more that have been added to my own bloglines account since that [...]

[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/gT2E2F0DmyE" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Awesome! This was shared many times in the recent past, and I am considering sharing it with some kids–sort of as a starting point for conversation. I heard some other educators have shared it with their kids too, so I figure, why not? Today I had kids for the [...]

Yes it’s coming, in just a few weeks, once again, educators all over the world will be totally caught up in a conference that is probably the most virtual event in the truest sense of the word “virtual,” and it’s a conference that keeps on giving regardless of where you are or when you decide [...]

During the Labor Day weekend I shared some photos from a walk with the dog on the beach. Today as I was driving home from school (to my beach home away from home) I couldn’t help but notice all the trees filled with Spanish Moss.  There  is a sprinkling of palm trees around, and many [...]

I haven’t done an SYP lately, so I thought I’d catch everyone up. Here’s my lists: Accomplished: Weeded 2000+ books from the 11,000. (still waiting on the raw numbers since the “missing” titles still have yet to be removed. I’ll wait to run another coll. analysis when that is taken care of. Updated all the [...]

Why are the schools always lagging behind injust about everything? I can remember in the early eighties my education professors then touting “inquiry-based” learning as the way to make students rise up to the top of Bloom’s taxonomy. Yet even in the science classes I have observed and even collaborated in today have shown very [...]