Author Archives: kbrand99

Today we ventured to the zoo. Obviously we have more important things to do, but the Dino exhibit just opened and we had to explore it. It was cool, loud moving dinosaurs were scattered thru out. Monkey was a bit … Continue reading →

I’m sitting here writing something on my blog, watching the Joy Behar Show, surrounded by articles that I should be ready and annotating for my annotated bibliography. I’m tired and need a day off. Instead, I’m taking the last 30 … Continue reading →

Joan Frye Williams presented the talk/webinar “Top tech trends for the non-technical” on 11/30/10 at InfoPeople.org. Her talks are always inspirational as she is an out-of-the-box thinker. She is a library consultant that frequently works with libraries to predict future … Continue reading →

Donald Leu and his associates are advocates of a new type of literacy. This article, from February 2002, (Internet Workshop: Making Time for Literacy – http://www.readingonline.org/electronic/RT/2-02_column/) feels a bit dated, yet it includes several great ideas for implementing technology and … Continue reading →

“TPACK: Game On” by Karen Work Richardson in Learning & Leading with Technology, June/July 2010, 34-35. Technological, pedagogical, and content knowledge is a model of teacher knowledge in educational technology. The model was created by Punya Mishra and Matthew Koehler … Continue reading →

My definition of Educational Technology: Educational Technology is any technology that can be used to enhance or improve education, this includes technologies that are not directly involved with classroom instruction, i.e. technologies that are used in the administrative realm and … Continue reading →

So the monkey went to daycare a few times over the past three or four weeks. Every time he goes there it seems that he ends up sick. So the first time he went back – he came home and … Continue reading →

The trusty steed seems to be a crazy steed as well. She has had a bit of a rough summer – her best friend Ebony disappeared (she passed away in early June), her human dad disappeared (he deployed to Iraq … Continue reading →