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What I Did On My Summer Vacation
This is a travelog of the summer of 2010. It was incredible and highly refreshing summer. Many, many times I hate talking about what’s going on, so I decided to write the middle school essay “What I did on my summer vacation.” That way I can get it all out and live in the present [...]
Develop a PLaN to Create – Motivate
What a great opportunity to motivate educators to develop and create web 2.0 projects. It is very easy to talk about the technologies, but I feel in order to walk the talk; I should model the projects I have used. So, for every web 2.0 application, I created something personal to me. I am giving [...]
My sabbatical at Northwestern: To create. To learn. To experience.
As part of the Golden Apple Award, I attended Northwestern University for spring quarter starting from March 30-June 7, 2009. Here is my reflection of the “once in a lifetime” experience. My composition class with Dr. Maud Hickey was nothing but incredible. It made me see the beginning stages of how we compose to the [...]
Golden Apple on youtube
I spent the better time of the weekend setting up a youtube channel for the Golden Apple Foundation. It is an amazing foundation concerning the that “all students have excellent teachers. Over a month ago, eleven of us, lead by Dom Belmonte, our CEO/President conducted a roundtable about education. It was done the day after [...]
Golden Apple Roundtable for Arne Duncan and Dept of Ed
Arne Duncan was just confirmed at the new Secretary of Education under the Obama administration. He used to be the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and on the Board of Directors for the Golden Apple since 2002. Arne Duncan and the Golden Apple are the signs of new beginnings and new ideas. Golden Apple [...]
HONK! and the Golden Apple – What a week!
I started the week with five different shows of HONK! with 149 middle school children grades 4-8. The show has been life-changing for so many students. The interaction of the various grade levels along with the talent has been incredible. I have three more individual casts to go. It is quite the buzz around Sunset [...]