GitHub made a recent update to their web interface that now makes me believe it is a place every educator belongs. flickr photo shared by Bernie Goldbach under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license You can now create and drag and drop files into your repos. Think of a repo as a cabinet,that holds both files and folders. Attached to your "cabinet" is a clip
Not one minute. Not one dime. I made that promise May 19th, 1999 when I woke my brother Perez up from his slumber at the midngith release of Phantom Menace. I would never watch the first prequeln or give George Lucas any of my money for the movie. For sixteen years I kept that promise. Last night the credo blew up as predictably as some planet size laser. My
flickr photo shared by Hldrmn under a Creative Commons ( BY-ND ) license We held our first session of Power and Passion-Writing for Change as part of #GearUpNH. I am always inspired by the scholars who join us. This semester Gear Up New Haven is offering after school academic programs on our main campus. New Haven Public Schools has donated the transportatio
I know the goal is to have one universal rubric of effective practice for each school district. Yet after evaluating over 200 teachers and working with numerous rubrics and frameworks I have come to realize the instruments are tilted heavily towards better performance in lower grades. Especially if classroom climate is an entire domain. I am sorry but it is
The end of the chronological timeline means nothing for most people complaining about the change. For those who may not know last week the Internet blew up when rumors swirled of an algorithim based timeline over at Twitter. It came out today. For those loudest during the protest please stop talking. You have not been to the Twiiter web applciation in years.