This is my second attempt at blogging.  It is hard to keep up with this when I teach at the University of Akron and have a 5, 8, and 10 year old at home.  I would like to share my ideas on computer use in the classroom and how to engage students in content.  Not to memorize content, but teach them to find interest in the content and understand the material beyond a recall of fact.  I hope that this will give me a place to note my ideas and that over time others might help me understand better how to do the toughest job in the world: teach middle school.  Well, lets see what happens.