Power Still on in DC

I am awake in Bowie, Maryland this morning and happily we still have power. Sandy passed us by with hard steady rain and strong winds for the past 36 hours. The sights and sounds from the Jersey shore and New York City have revealed massive devastation. I guess we should all be glad that we have FEMA still. I have not posted in two months but hope that I can increase that frequency.

I really wonder if we should keep placing homes and businesses along the shore. They are destroyed so frequently and cost the country so much money that we need to at least consider why we allow them to go there.

We owe a great debt to all of the fire, police, and health personnel who have selflessly thrown themselves into saving everyone.

Reprint from Free Digital Game Based Learning

Here is a reprint from another blog that I keep.

Matthews on the Offensive!!!!!!

Chris Matthews finally confronted the hidden issue in the campaign...Mitt is White and Barak is Black..

Communication after Text

Here is a great slide share from Stephen Downes on the world after text only!!

GYOD (Grow Your Own Dinner)

A great Ted Talk that the Innovative Educator (Lisa Neilsen)brought to my attention and I thought I would bring to you. Stephen Ritz, a South Bronx teacher, made school real for his students. If only we all had his courage and imagination.

BYOD

I am a huge advocate of BYOD in school. If you have thought at all about the issue, then this video is for you. If you have not thought at all about the issue then this video is a great place to start. If you do not care about the issue, then this video may just tickle your curiosity. Give it a look. (I Found the video on the Innovative Educator Blog)

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American Uprising by Daniel Rasmussen
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

American Uprising changed the way I look at the world. The measure of a book to me is

that it teaches me something about something I am interested in and changes my mental image of this subject. In the case of American Uprising that subject was slavery. I never understood the relationship between the sugar islands and the Louisiana Purchase. I knew there were sugar plantations in Louisiana but not to the extent that they existed. Sugar Slavery was different from Slavery in the rest of American states and territories and this book illuminates that difference clearly.

The book's problem is that it lacks the usual historical method of verifying of its conclusions about how the Uprising occurred. The nitty gritty of the uprising is not what is important about this book. The real value of the book is its illumination of slavery in the new American territory. This may not have been what Rasmussen set out to do, but it is what he accomplished brilliantly.




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