As if I needed any more reasons to use Google Docs besides the sharing, the collaboration, the fact it is free, the folders, the sharing of folders, and the fact that it is free; Google has given me one more reason. A big, gigantic reason, actually. I can now upload ANY type of file to [...]
An accident happened to me while teaching Algebra 2 this year. A very good accident. I was teaching solving equations, and I always tell my learners that solving equations is about looking for 1′s and 0′s. I stress this fact, and point out the 0′s and the 1 every time we solve something. And of [...]
Okay, these are two totally different thoughts on tech and presenting. One is from Laura Bergells from her blog “Maniactive” or “More than Powerpoint” entitled “How do you earn attention when presenting.” Laura tells a tale of a presentation she went to where the presenter was rude, arrogant and all together a jerk about tech. [...]
I was frustrated last school year because it was a pain to use my projector. I had an S-Video cable wired for my TV, 2 Video cables, one for the school’s computer and one shared between my elmo and laptop, and a fourth cable for my iPod. It was the shared cable between my laptop [...]
I have really been struggling this year with my electronic organization. Firstly, I am in charge of web development using the Angel LMS for the group of teachers creating and teaching our Advanced Algebra Applications 5-6 course. It is a new course, and the only course in the US that teaches the math it does. [...]
I have been rather silent in my blogging the last several months mainly because I was so overwhelmed that I had to not do something, and blogging was it. You see, 5 years ago this month I ran for my local school board. (I know, I know, why do you care but there is a [...]
In another case of “working together benefits all”. Dan Meyer posted a picture of himself throwing a ball into a trash can. Except, he only posted the first half of the flight. (See the original here.) This picture is one in his series of “What can you do with this?”, that challenges educators to think [...]
This seems like a seemingly simple question for teachers: Could you identify 10 excellent web sites for your grade level / subject area? via dangerously irrelevant Scott posted this a couple of weeks ago, and got a lot of people thinking about what web usage really is and really means. He ended it with a [...]
I was taking an online course on how to create online courses, and one of the assignments was to suggest pedagogical websites and sources. (That 6 week online course is one reason I have not posted in so long, but that is a totally different story.) I suggested dy/dan, Dan Meyer’s terrific site. One of [...]
I used to use Google Notebook for research, but since they have discontinued development on it I became a little skittish about continuing to rely on it. And then I discovered Zotero. I am in heaven. Seriously. All of my pdf’s of journal articles now have a home, with full bibliographic information pulled from the [...]