Last week, I met with Rick Wherley (Independence Local Schools) and Shari Bailey (Garfield Heights City Schools). We were all working on our districts’ technology plans, and spent some time discussing various technology-in-schools issues and how we’re approaching them in our technology plans. In Ohio, schools are more-or-less required to use the state provided technology planning tool to complete our technology plans. In one of … Continue reading Technology Test Coming?

In this installment from the series of posts about podcasts for teaching and learning, we’ll take a look at podcasts related to language arts. There are hundreds of podcasts related to English, language, literature, and writing. Here are a few: Today’s Podcast is a short program about an interesting word or phrase. They’re typically about two minutes long, and recent episodes have addressed words like … Continue reading Language Arts Podcasts

It’s hard to make classical music accessible to kids. It’s generally a "grown up" kind of thing. We have to get dressed up and go to fancy concert halls, sit quietly in our seats without fidgeting, and listen to boring music without words. Cincinnati’s classical public radio station, WGUC, is trying to change that perception with their "Classics for Kids" program. While the radio show … Continue reading Classics for Kids