Last night as I was watching the Alabama football team go down in defeat, I was going down to defeat at the hands of a spreadsheet I had bee...

I participate in several time management/personal productivity discussion groups. The exchange of ideas healthy and even when disagreement ...

Sometimes, the best thing to do is jump into a task and get it done. Sometimes, the best thing to do is step back, relax, and plan. Yesterda...

I have made the statement more times than I can count that "I learned something every day this summer." That statement holds true...

Education is a "helping" profession, and those who embark on a career in this arena have the natural tendency to say "yes....

Our school system is preparing for a District SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools) Accreditation visit later this school year...

As of today, this blog has a new title! The driving reason for the change is in preparation for the publication of a new book. Over a decade...

One of the real pleasures of my career in education has been the privilege of serving as an "Editorial Adviser" for the National A...

Maintenance requests have been a source of frustration in my school for as long as I have been there (going on 11 years now). The paper form...

School has begun! The beginning of this school year, like any school year, includes gathering data. How many students do we have? What cla...

This week, I have been receiving daily e-mail messages that someone has sent me an electronic greeting card and prompting me to click on a l...

I talked earlier this week about Web 2.0. With so many people producing so much, one can easily become overwhelmed by good stuff. What if al...

When you conduct a workshop, you can never be sure who will take what you have to give and use it and to what extent it will be used. I was ...

Here are some of the major ideas I gained from the Mega Conference held in Mobile this past week. The major thrust of the Mega Conference ...

Your e-mail can be a handy source for the latest weather advisories. The National Weather Service provides RSS feeds for watches and warnin...

We all know what life can be like for the new teacher. He or she walks into a classroom that may be totally bare of even the basics. All-too...

It never fails that when I teach a workshop, I wind up learning something new. Such is the case with the latest session I conducted Wednesda...

If you are creating a blog, you might be interested in having a counter. The most basic advantage is that you can see how many people visit ...

If you are visiting for the first time as a result of the workshop at JSU, welcome! In the archives, you will find a great deal of informati...

Microsoft has released an article regarding the benefits of multiple monitors. The story is located here . My set-up at work includes two ...