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A conversation from the ESM Summit about the social media impact on the evolution of teaching with Hans Mundahl (New Hampton School), Peter Gow (BCDS), David Bill (The …

I’m a skeptic. When people tell me that something is free I generally don’t believe them. There is always some cost and while I may not be taking my wallet out of my pocket there is always some payment that has to be made.

Because of this mindset, the idea that social media is free isn’t something that I bought into right away. The idea that our school could use social media to communicate, market and share information with our vast constituencies was incredible. To my joy, as I looked at some of the major sites and service I would be using I found that they were indeed, for the most part, completely without cost.

In a recent email I received from one of our school’s Educational Technology Coordinators, she asked my opinion on creating a Facebook page for the following year’s Senior class.  She wants to use the page …

In an earlier blog post I wrote of my addiction to Twitter and my thoughts on the service as a professional development tool, however now through our use of MKA’s Irish Studies Program Twitter profile …

For over 10 years, The Montclair Kimberley Academy’s (MKA) Irish Studies Program has been taking seniors to Ireland as part of our school’s May Term Program. Typically, we have been telling our stories through standard, …

“I am a Twitter addict!” There I’ve said it, I’ve gotten it out in the open and now I can begin to move on. I use Twitter on my computer, on my iPhone, I have feeds pumping into various web site that I am responsible for, but through all of my use of Twitter it wasn’t until I found the right tool that it really brought it all together and made it the real professional growth tool that it has become.