Want to write a Guest Post?

I am interested in accepting submissions for guest posts. My position has increased in responsibility which has cut down on free time to write, so I have decided to accept guest posts to keep the content flowing until I have settled into my new position.

I will not be able to use everyone’s submissions, and the one’s that I do use will be spread out over the course of the next month. I will try to use as many as I can, but I hope to be comfortable enough in my new position by July 4th.

Here is what am I looking for:

• Anything related to education and how it relates to technology.
• Posts of any length are acceptable, as long as they follow the theme of the post and relate helpful information.
• I prefer the focus of the posts on k12 education, but I will also accept higher education.
• I’m looking for content not published elsewhere.

How to Submit Your Post:

• Please write your post in MS Word
• Give the post a title (I may change it)
• Attach the post to an email addressed to guestposts.edutechation@gmail.com
• In the email include a byline and a link to your blog and/or any educational institution that you belong to or own. I will include this in your post, but please do not be a big self promoter. Your words should promote you.

Lastly, I reserve the right to edit a posts content for grammar, spelling, and non-factual or biased information. I will not post anything that oversteps the guidelines of ethics in education or public sensibilities. In short, use common sense and write something that would be allowed to be read in a school.

I look forward to seeing some great posts soon.

Filed under: Education, Educational Technology, K-12 Education, K-12 Schools , Blogging, guest posts

Education in Courage

This post is completely off topic for educational technology, but this news item completely hit me in my soft spot.

When I was in my 20’s I was reading the print copy of SI, it was the only copy back then, when I read about a female high school track runner who broke her leg 100 yards from the finish of her race. She was the anchor for the 4×400 relay in a state meet and was leading by a lot when she broke her leg. Not wanting to let her teammates down she crawled to the finish line.

That high school girl inspired me to do a lot of things. She showed me what loyalty, courage and guts were all about. I never thought I would see anything like it again in my lifetime, but I see it everyday in the news.

• a 6 year old calling 911 to save her mothers life
• the firefighters and police at the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the friend I lost in the Pentagon plane crash on that same day
• a husband giving his life by setting out in snow and freezing weather to save his wife and daughters lives

Today I add another one to my list. This one is also a female high school cross country runner in her last high school race. She also breaks her leg and crawls to the finish line. The difference here is that we are in the Internet age where we have video and access to this personally. Watch the video, (11/23 – 2am – the video feed at FOX News is currently not working. Continue to check the URL to watch it when it comes back up.) listen to the young lady. If only our whole country had the courage and guts she shows on this video, what we could accomplish!

Technorati tags: Education, Sports, Cross Country

Filed under: Education, Family, In The News, K-12 Schools , Courage, Cross Country, Guts

Free Software to Help Teach

Check out the new Free Software page above. They are a small collection of programs and web sites that I’ve found useful and have added to our teachers laptops.

Filed under: ActivBoard, Education, Educational Technology, K-12 Ed Tech, K-12 Education, K-12 Schools, Promethean, Technology, Web 2.0, Wikis, software , Weblog