Tech-Savvy Teacher

June 29th, 2010 | Tags: ISTE10 | Category: paper and paperless world, tech savvy teacher rants | Leave a comment

Google announced today that it is allowing users to upload any file to their Google Docs service. http://bit.ly/4rqh3q This is great that they are expanding their services, but they are late to the game on this one.  We have raved about Dropbox http://bit.ly/6uIy6E before, but Google’s announcement reinforces how currently, Dropbox is in a class [...]

January 12th, 2010 | Category: google, read/write web, software reviews, tech savvy teacher rants, technology, web 2.0 | Leave a comment

Attention coffee shop owners:
I get it.  You don’t want people to be sitting at your place for four hours if you serve lunch and need to turn over tables.  I think it is completely reasonable to ask people with laptops to limit their use if people are waiting for tables.  I think it is completely [...]

August 20th, 2009 | Category: folks that don't get it, tech savvy teacher rants | Leave a comment

I am going to admit something to the educational technology masses: I just can’t get on board with the ever-so-easy criticism of lecture as a form of teaching.
The latest round of lecture bashing was inspired from an article in the the Chronicle of Higher Education by Jeffrey Young suggesting that taking the technology out of [...]

August 5th, 2009 | Category: powerpoint, tech savvy teacher rants | Comments (2)

Kids can spot a phony in mere seconds and their “smell test” senses are more finely-tuned than ours.  That’s what made this post so amusing to me:  a student calling out their teacher for adopting an inane suggestion from Sandy Garrett, Oklahoma’s State Superintendent, that teachers should accept assignments in texting speak.
In defense of Ms. [...]

February 21st, 2009 | Category: cell phones, folks that don't get it, tech savvy teacher rants | Leave a comment

Sketch up is a cool program to use in conjunction with Autocad or by itself for an art based project.  Sketch up allows the user to draw a picture or object.  You can then import the file to autocad which will allow you to change the picture into a 3-d model.  Between the two, a [...]

October 15th, 2008 | Tags: Add new tag | Category: mini reviews, multimedia, software reviews, tech news, tech savvy teacher rants, technology | Comments (2)