Category: Russo’s Ramblings
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Summer Haiku
Welcome back, everyone! I’d love to hear how your summer was – so let’s try it in the form of a haiku. I’ve read up on haiku a little, and the “rules” for them are not set in stone – but typically one is set with 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and then 5 syllables in…
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Hey you mouse potato – you wanna supersize that !?!?!?
Merriam-Webster has updated its 2006 Collegiate Dictionary, and added approximately 100 new words. In the technology category, mouse potato is a newcomer, and the definition is exactly what you would expect. Like its cousin the couch potato who spends too much time in front of the TV, such is the case with the mouse potato…
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Predictions for the New Year
Happy New Year!!! Well, almost…still a couple of weeks before we start…sorry to our southern neighbors who are already back 🙂 Andy Carvin posted his Back to School: Five Predictions… today, and encouraged others to do the same, so here we go. I’ll start by briefly commenting on his five predictions: 1. The Cell Phone…
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What’s the Beef?
Blogs! Wikis! Podcasts! Aggregators! Web 2.0! In a salute to the great Wendy’s slogan of the 80’s, the “beef” of current trends in technology are NOT those things listed above. Those items (except for Web 2.0 which is a general label for all of the latest technology trends on the web) are awesome products of…
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Open Source Sweetness
So in the land of pesonal learning, I have been working with open source software to learn how this type of software can be beneficial. What is open souce software? For the most part it is FREE software that does all the things pay-for software does. People write code for this software in the interest…
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Whew!
This is a test post to make sure the transfer of my WordPress data made it into the new domain. It appears that the new home, www.pointatopointb.org, is happy & healthy! Onto the more important work of building the site…
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Revisiting an Old Friend
A number of years ago I saw a quote on the cover of an educational periodical. It jumped out at me and resonated with what I have always felt. To this day I have that cover, albeit a bit beat up, taped to my desk. It is a quote from T.H. White in The Once…
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Learning is Everywhere
I love going to workshops. I don’t necessarily find huge new ideas, but there are always great little tips and tricks to hear, and you can observe different ways to teach particular concepts. It is very refreshing to not be in the driver’s seat, and soak up how someone else presents. It is invaluable in…
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Homerun
I just finished the last presentation of the year – woo-hoo! I convinced my very talented colleague Pam Lombardo to present with me about our first year of having SMART Boards full-time in classrooms. We had a full house in the session, and I think the message of what can be done with interactive whiteboards…
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DON’T (!) Use the Computer
When you are researching something, don’t always go to the computer first. Ask yourself who/what/where might the best place be to find what you need? There are still TONS of great resources of information that don’t involve the Internet. BOOKS still have information, and can get you what you need very quickly. PEOPLE have information,…