I’m hoping that most of us bloggers will do what some folks did last December: create a top 10 (or so) list of their favorite / most important / most […]
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My RFP for guest bloggers has gotten some responses. I’m excited! First out of the chute is Greg Cruey. I asked Greg for a short blurb about himself. Here’s what […]
Have you ever taken part in a conversation about progressive education or school reform and left the dialogue wondering if you were even talking about the same topic? Often I’m left wondering how […]
[Update: If you registered, please check your junk mail / spam folders. Many of you who thought you had not received an e-mail from me later found my message in there…] […]
Justin Medved and Dennis Harter have done fabulous jobs this week as my guest bloggers . I appreciate their willingness to contribute to this community! My next guest will be […]
Mark your calendars! The second annual Iowa 1:1 Institute (I11I) will be at the Polk County Convention Complex in Des Moines on April 20, 2011, from 9am to 5pm. In our first […]
Friday is traditionally a slow news day in the Middle East, and today is no different. Al-Sharq al-Awsat has this piece on the protests this week, claiming that two soldiers […]
In my continuing efforts to turn Waq al-waq into my own personal calendar – it tends to work better than the plastic bags and scraps of receipts and newspapers I […]
Christmas is one night that is allowed to rip itself from the continuum and to exist all on its own, a mystery and damnation to all the clocks ticking away below.
By anyone’s measure, Mike Pearce appears to be a phenomenal history teacher. His Ellison High School students in Killeen, Texas had a 99% passing rate on the state history assessment […]
Miguel Guhlin invited me to be a guest blogger on the TechLearning blog. A couple of days ago I submitted my first post – I will be blogging for TechLearning […]
I’ve been pushing Google Apps for a while now. I have been pushing colleagues and speaking to groups and faculties and school boards. I have written at length about it […]
For those of us who have been watching al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and its predecessor groups al-Qaeda in Yemen and al-Qaeda in the South of the Arabian Peninsula (note […]
[This is a new feature here at Dangerously Irrelevant, meant to help us get to know some edubloggers a little better. If you’d like to be featured sometime, drop me […]
This year I started writing a column in the SAI Report, the monthly PDF newsletter put out by the School Administrators of Iowa for its members. With SAI’s permission, I’ve […]
The calendar has turned to February, campus is closed because we’re encased in ice and we’re all still watching Kirishima. Yesterday, the volcano produced another impressive explosion (video), one that broke […]
On New Year’s Day, a bomb exploded outside a Coptic church in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, killing 21 people and injuring 79 more. It was the deadliest terrorist attack […]
Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the end of the 1994 Civil War(Suggested gift: Crystal). There have been a few bombings of oil pipelines the last couple days- successful and […]
For a country that created a special holiday just to remember those who have fought for our freedoms in war, we do a lot of forgetting the rest of the […]
Can and should we try to drill deep into the earth, past the crust and into the mantle? We’ve tried in the past but haven’t gotten far. If the earth was an orange, we’d have barely zested it.
“The chief executive of Microsoft is going to the U.K. to explain the multi-billion dollar bet that the world’s biggest software company and a poster boy for corporate America is making.”
This is my final post in my series on outside consultants. Parts 1 and 2 highlighted two controversial consultants, Drs. Willard Daggettand Ruby Payne, to illustrate some possible issues of concern. […]
On Monday I published the final list of Leadership Day 2010 posts. Today I’m going to highlight a few that, for one reason or another, particularly resonated with me. This is […]
[This is a guest post from Doug Green. If you’re interested in being a guest blogger, drop me a note. Happy reading!] Update: see also Don Watkins’ response to this […]
Redoubt stops Alaskan politics and the eruption continues.
Dear Reader, I apologize for the length of this article. It’s actually two articles smashed into one. All together this post will take roughly 5 minutes to read. I generally […]
The eruption in Iceland roars onward, introducing the Volcano Picture of the Week and Kilauea lava flows take a wrong turn.
I’ve been meaning to start blogging about this site launched last week, and as it turns out, I just received this press release via email. I am sure I will […]
The Iceland eruptions continues producing ash and lava flows, Kilauea’s east rift looks to be tapering off, videos of eruptions at Colima in Mexico and the latest USGS/SI report.
When you compile a list of artists that other artists love to hate, a few names typically appear: Jeff Koons, Thomas Kinkade, and, perhaps most virulently, Damien Hirst. You can […]