TED.com is a website that I became acquainted with through one of my teaching colleagues. According to the website: “TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. You can find talks about various topics, from education [...]
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A Lost Generation
Posted by KWiz on October 19th, 2010
I haven’t posted in quite a long time, not on a regular basis, as you can see. Life got in the way (this is not a bad thing at all). See, I’m a wife of almost 10 years (yea!), a mother over 6 years, a teacher over 10 years, you get the idea. And your [...]
“Growing Up Online”
Posted by KWiz on January 22nd, 2008
As many of you know, I teach high school – grades 9 and 12. As they often share with me different aspects of their lives, I am increasingly flabbergasted at the amount of time children spend online. I am actually floored that their way of making friends and interacting with those friends is no longer [...]
Happy Father’s Day!!!
Posted by KWiz on June 17th, 2007
To all the fathers out there, today’s your day! It is a day where your children cook you breakfast in bed, for a change. It is a day where your children reflect how wonderful and beautiful an influence you have been in their lives. It is a day when we all think about the sacrifices [...]
Unsettledness
Posted by KWiz on May 30th, 2007
School’s out. I’ve got about 10 weeks off. Vacation! You’d think? Rest? Probably not. Yes, I’m a bit unsettled. I’m not quite comfortable with where I am right now. I’m about to be a stay-at-home mom for the summer. How in the world do women who do it full-time, all the time, actually do it? [...]
How Unique Are You?
Posted by KWiz on May 15th, 2007
Back in the 80s and 90s when I worked in corporate America, I loved to wear beautiful suits. It was always my intent to purchase suits that I didn’t think I’d see on anyone else at any particular time (living in Milwaukee, Wisconsin). It’s not that I had goo-gobs of money to spend on one-of-a-kinds; [...]
What Are We Teaching Our Children?
Posted by KWiz on May 6th, 2007
My daughter will be 3 years old on May 20th. I am so excited! I see her personality developing each day, her sense of independence, her vocabulary – it’s so incredibly amazing! My husband and I try to teach our daughter how to make good choices. Even though she is (and will be) an only [...]
“Thinking” About It – Thinking Blogger Award
Posted by KWiz on April 14th, 2007
One of the great things about being here in the world of blogging is I’ve been able to begin developing my voice to attempt to talk about some things that are important to women (and men too!). Since I’ve started, I’ve met so many great people who’ve encouraged me along the way, tagged me for [...]
Sticks and Stones, and Yes, Words Too
Posted by KWiz on April 9th, 2007
Last week, the Rutgers University Women’s Basketball team played the University of Tennessee in the NCAA championship. If you haven’t heard, nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus and executive producer Bernard McGuirk (and others), commenting on the Rutgers women’s basketball team on his show “Imus in the Morning” said the following, in part (click here [...]
I’m A Top Momma!
Posted by KWiz on March 2nd, 2007
I’m now a “Top Momma”! What does this mean? It means that I made the front page of TopMomma! And if you’d like, you can go to the front page of TopMomma and click on the eye – you know, the one that looks like this: The more people click, the longer I get to [...]
