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Ben Wilkoff
3,652 posts since 2005. My name is Ben Wilkoff, and I Teach. And Learn. A Lot.
- Communal livingI never realized just how important community was to me until my wife and I asked our best family friends to come and live with us while they are…
- Responsible for your learning time…Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr I had a meeting today that brought together a lot of different people who are all involved in making…
- Honest with myself…Image via Wikipedia Where I to be totally honest with myself: I would stop whatever I am doing and find the nearest classroom to teach in. I would…
- Planning to support us…One of the consistent complaints (and most often heard form of resistance to using open source software) about Moodle is that it lacks any formal…
- I won't buy anything that only does one thingI have been thinking a lot about this recently: I don’t want anything to do with a device that only does what it was advertised to do. It is…
- BookGlutton: The coolest thing to happen to reading.Image via CrunchBase I can’t believe that this service took this long to exist, but my goodness is it cool: BookGlutton is a site that creates on…
- The answer to a question no one askedImage by Getty Images via Daylife Here is an e-mail that I sent out just a few minutes ago to the team that is helping to decide the fate of…
- Talking about teachers when they aren't around.I have been a part of way too many meetings recently when there haven’t been any current teachers present, yet teaching decisions were being made.…
- Jumpcut Closing, Obviously.Image via CrunchBase I woke up this morning to this e-mail: Dear Jumpcut user, After careful consideration, we will be officially closing the…
- Why Google Docs should matter to Schools:I wrote this impassioned e-mail in response to a discussion about using Google Docs within our district. You may be able to sense the passion, but…