Communicative Modalities and the Health Care Reform Crisis

This blog’s themes are bandied about outside of the virtual realm much like the bravely crewed caravelles of yore on the high seas during a storm.  An interesting analogy, especially since I’ve only recently returned from a four day trip to Cape Cod with my family where we saw a National Geographic inspired museum of [...]

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Commentary on Time’s article: “Can Language Skills Ward Off Alzheimer’s Disease?”

The full text of the article can be foundhere, but the full commentary by yours truly can be found below.
This particular report is of specific interest to those like myself and others steadily at war with a creeping monster relentlessly availing itself of increasingly larger parts of a loved one’s mental faculties and neither returning [...]

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Mayoral Control at stake, and with it our future

An unpopular topic at the moment, I realize, though, increasingly, one that is much more crucial an item to pay attention to than the recent Obama fly swatting incident that has surreptitiously dominated the airwaves:

Just in case anyone is not tracking the bipartisan acrobatics currently unfolding in Albany, it’s a highly [...]

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Why do you need technology in a Foreign Language Classroom?

I have been asked this question dozens of times by as many administrators, all of whom have seen no clear connection between computing, SMART board lessons, or video presentations in a foreign language classroom.  To be fair, I have heard of utopic, far flung districts on the fringes of the mapped educational multiverse -in a [...]

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