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 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 [...]
I am in the last semester of my M.Ed., have to do a major project in addition to the research class and produce a publishable piece based on original research, took on a position with a new teacher organization to promote technology use in the district, and have three preps. I realize that organization is [...]
Sam pointed out that my software replaced the podcast with the pdf, leaving me with 2 copies of the same thing. DOH! So I spent a week trying to get Edublogs to allow the upload. No success, and lots and lots of failure! So, here it is, linked from Box.net. Operations with numbers MP3 Which [...]
I told Sam that I would post this, so here is a sample of the podcast of my lecture. It is rough and unedited. I am torn between editing them right now. It takes me about 3 to 5 minutes to post these on my school’s Edline website for the learners. If I edited and [...]
The first part of technology that I am using is my laptop. It is my personal laptop, and I have a cable lock for it just to keep it from wondering away when I am not looking. It is nothing special, a Toshiba Satellite, 12.5 inch screen, 3 years old. I use OpenOffice on it [...]
I have been working on seriously incorporating technology in my teaching. Not talking about technology, but actually using technology so that it is seamless. First things first, by set up. I have a ceiling mounted projector, with additional speakers in the center of my room. The ceiling mount cost about $60 to do, and the [...]