Fully Online COETAIL Program Begins Feb. 5th

  I am proud to announce that working with Buffalo State-SUNY we are now offering a fully online Certificate of Educational Technology and Information Literacy (COETAIL) Program to International Educators. This is a special program that only...

Tanzania, Kilimanjaro and Obama?

Just over 24 hours off the plane from the most amazing trip to Tanzania. As my wife and I prepare to transition back to life in America in June, we figured one last fantastic trip to Africa was in the cards….so off to Tanzania we went.  Climbing Kilimanjaro...

New Home Base: Seattle, WA

The next decision of the next chapter of my life has been made. Next year my wife and I will move to Seattle, WA and be based out of there for whatever is next for us. View from our Condo It has been 10 years since we lived in the States and we’re excited...

Facebook Page vs Subscribe for Educators

  Recently Facebook launched the ability to allow people to subscribe to your Facebook Profile if you so choose to turn on the functionality. As an educator I don’t think it is a good idea and I’m fearful of what this means if educators don’t...

’12 Prediction: Mobile and Integration

Each year I try to predict what the next year is going to be about….for no other reason than being a futurist is kind of fun. You can look at my past year’s predictions and decide for yourself if I am any good at it.  2007: The Year of the Network...

Good Use of QR Codes

  Just about a year ago I predicted that 2011 would be the year of the QR Code. That we would see these little squares popping up everywhere especially in America as smartphone sells continue to climb.  Looking back over the past year I’ve given quiet...

Google+ Reflection

Google+ has been open now for a while and the up-take of the new social-networking site seems expodential. There are already over 1000 people who have added me to a circle, by far my quickest social-network to 1000 followers.      Where Google+ is right...

Google Slowly taking over my life

    This morning I woke up at 4:30am to call my bank back in America to do a wire transfer for our Winter Trip to Tanzania (Hiking Kilimanjaro, a Safari, and Zanzabar…yeah….we’re stoked!). I decided to use Google Talk via my Gmail account...

Stand-Up Desk Experiment

  It’s been about two months now since I’ve switched over to my standing desk here at school…and although the view of the white wall in front of me along with the discarded non-fiction books that are heading to better places...