Remembering our troops during the holidays

At this time of year, I often find myself reflecting on my personal accomplishments and evaluating my personal goals. I adjust my goals accordingly to the world around me. Will I afford my dream vacation this year? What family activities will I want to attend? Can I complete the task that I’ve started? This is [...]

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Shmoop’s writing component

Nikki asked a question regarding Shmoop. She was having difficulty navigating through the writing component. I played around with it at various times and skipped over the theme section to complete my outline. Although skipping the valuable theme section is not ideal, it did allow me to advance. Shmoop is still in the beta stage [...]

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Wii in the classroom?

Wander through most classrooms and students will be sitting in their desks. Their desks are in rows and the teacher is in the front of the room. Sounds very much like a classroom in the one room schoolhouse of yesterday. This is not the case in one high school classroom. Wander into this classroom and [...]

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Delicious. It’s Yummy.

No matter your interest. No matter your technology ability. You want to keep your favorite websites organized and at your finger tips. For most of us, we use our favorite tool on the web browser. This is fine, until we are not sitting with our machine or we have too many to keep organized or [...]

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