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Beware of Hurricane Helene Fundraising Scams
Today in my middle school web design class, we took some time at the start to “think / pair / share” about the past weekend’s dramatic and even traumatic events caused by Hurricane Helene. Several teachers in our department did not have electricity at their houses for three days, and some students reported electricity outages…
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POWs and NotebookLM
In December of 1991 as a senior at the US Air Force Academy, I wrote “American POWs in Southeast Asia and the Violation of a National Ethic” as my final research paper in my “History of Military Thought” class taught by visiting Colorado College professor, Dennis Showalter. That research was very challenging for me to…
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Boeing 737 Max Whistleblowers
I started a Wakelet collection of video and article links on “Boeing 737 Max Whistleblowers.” Those links are embedded at the bottom of this post. I highly recommend watching the Netflix documentary, “Downfall: The Case Against Boeing.” The merger of Boeing with McDonnell Douglas was and is a train wreck for safety in US aviation.…
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Priceless Media Hostages
This evening I looked through an old box of media tapes and CDs which managed to survive our 1000+ mile move from Oklahoma to North Carolina two years ago. There are some priceless artifacts here. Basically all the Digital 8 and MiniDV video tapes which I recorded of our kids and family growing up are…
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Preparing for “Peer War” with China
It is important for us, as citizens of the United States and our planet, to know of the growing hostilities which continue to build between China and the United States, and the likelihood of a “peer war” including both kinetic and cyber operations which could negatively impact all aspects of our lives. This conflict could…
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Enchanted Christmas Chapel Memories
I love listening to Christmas music year round. This is my favorite instrumental Christmas music playlist on Spotify: “Back in the day” this was a Pandora playlist called, “Peaceful Holidays.” Those were the years (starting in 2015) when I was the Director of Technology at Casady School in OKC. Lorin Swenson and I were still…
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Favorite Digital Utilities
What are the websites, web services, and software applications you use regularly and can’t imagine doing without? I call these my “favorite digital utilities,” and today I created a specific webpage for them on my curriculum / lesson sharing website which is built with Google Sites. As an example, I used the website Flickr to…
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Remembering Emergency Remote Learning (April 2020)
Were you teaching during the COVID-19 lock downs in April and May 2020? My wife and I were. This week a colleague asked me to find some photos we took at the time of Shelly teaching her third graders at Casady School online from our house in The Village in Oklahoma City, and I found…
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Dehumunization is Wrong
Dehumanizing other human beings: Denying the essential humanity of other people, is ethically wrong and immoral at a basic level. It is also dangerous, because people who view other human beings as sub-human or “inhuman” are capable of horrific atrocities. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights embodies the aspirational values of our founding documents in…
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Remembering TxTIP in Floydada and Post, Texas (2004-05)
Once upon a time in the late 1990s, there was a teacher in Lubbock, Texas, who had a dream. He dreamed that all the students in our schools could have their own personal computers to access information, communicate with others, and complete both assignments and projects required for classes at school. That teacher left the…
