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Playtime Online 23: SimCityEDU Office Hours featuring me as guest panelist! :)

Can video games make the world a better place? Read why in my latest Edutopia blog post, Gaming for Social Good: http://edut.to/14k19a4   ‪ ...

  Check out my latest piece for Edutopia (The George Lucas Educational Foundation), Beyond Badges: Why Gamify? :  http://www.edutopia.o...

I was recently interview about "gamification" and game-based learning. Here's the link to the article that appeared on HotC...

I am excited to now be blogging for Edutopia !  Check out my first post: Gamifying Student Engagement : http://www.edutopia.org/blog/g...

Below is a picture from today's International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavior Research (IOSSBR) Spring Conference ( htt...

This week, my 6th grade social studies students conducted research about medieval European topics, then they each remixed, "modded...

I was recently interviewed by  Streaming Media  magazine about video in the classroom.  My interview is in the February/March 2013 issu...

I wrote a reflection about the  class-created iPad book  my students authored and submitted it to  NJEA Review magazine .   My article appea...

Our class-created book,   The Corns Visit the 13 Colonies , is now live (and, global... in 50 countries!) in Apple's iBoo...

Just got Focus: Middle School World History , a great book of economic lessons from the Council for Economic Education , for my 6th grade...

Tomorrow morning I am giving a workshop on SMART Boards at Raritan Valley Community College titled, "SMART Boards: Creating Interacti...

This Wednesday, I am giving a workshop at the NJ Council for the Social Studies (NJCSS) Annual Fall Conference (I am one of the North Jerse...

I'm published in the latest issue of "Journal of Interactive Learning Research" :  The article I co-authored is titled, ...

Click here: Free Classroom Guides and Educational Downloads for 2012 from Edutopia

My course schedule was published today by Raritan Valley Community College .  My classes are on page 6 (under "Education") on t...

Click here to view this photo book larger Shutterfly baby photo books are the perfect way to preserve your baby's precious moments....

Hope everyone is enjoying summer!  Last week, my family and I went to Cape Cod, as well as Plimoth Plantation .  Below is a movie trailer (m...

Education Week is spotlighting Stanford University's Reading Like A Historian Curriculum . I began to use the materials last spring...

As the school year winds down, Mr. Rogers reminds us, it's good to be curious about many things. Thanks PBS Digital Studios for this rem...