Steve Taffee's musing on education, technology, and the environment. Steve has over twenty years of experience in education, software development, and web site management. he is currently director of technology at a leading independent girls school in CA.
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When the Kindle was first released two years ago, my first reaction was that of a typical geek. I wanted one. But I wasn’t about the plop down $400 for one, so I put it on my Amazon wish list and waited. Two Christmases came and went without a Kindle,...
The surge in the use of social media, the desire for authentic assessment and real-world projects, and the emergence of ubiquitous access to the Internet has brought the subject of how to balance reasonable student access to online resources and their...
In a previous post, I laid out ten ideas for making Google docs better. Here are ten more. Feel free to contribute to the list!
Invitations to meetings in the calendar view are too subtle. I mean really, do you expect me to see that tiny question...
Among the topics sure to crop up in the listservs I frequent (BAISNET and ISED-L), as well as various Nings, blogs, and wikis is that of calendars. A composite inquiry of all the things people are looking for in a school calendaring system might look...
What if…
school superintendents or heads of school could be paid no more than 3x that of the lowest paid school employee?
someone designed a school from the ground up having never set foot in one before?
the ratio of students to teachers was no more...
