The Twitter is all-a-twitter (get it? I crack myself up!) about this tool and that tool this week. I love the energy of the first month of school: most teachers are so full of good ideas or at least the energy to try out stuff that it is hard not to get caught up in [...]
I purchased my first flash drive in 2003 while teaching in another district. I was assigned to 5 different classrooms throughout the day and I was digging out my laptop for three of those periods (and hooking it up to a TV in each room!) and using the desktop machine in the other two.
I [...]
What I am about to work into a thought may, indeed, be offensive to the emerging social media crazy and educator’s attempt to capture it in the classroom, but follow me for a second.
I like Twitter. I didn’t really understand Twitter in its infancy, but after several months of playing with and consuming via it, [...]
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 [...]
From Pew:
Adolescents have been called “digital natives,” but data suggests that they are both comfortable with new technologies, and yet not always as technically savvy as we collectively believe them to be.
Yup.
It is official because I received the yearly “welcome back to school!” letter from my district’s central office. School will start soon!
I have a lot on my mind as I plan on making a number of changes this year, many of which I’d like to blog about to help get the community feedback. [...]
PHOTOSHOP BASICS: Adobe Photoshop Editing Tools
Photoshop is install on my school computer and all I use it for it to crop photos because I am scared of the rest of the features. This is an excellent set of tutorials for their more basic but quite powerful tools.
tags: photoshop
The top seven social networking sites for [...]
It is hard to read through headlines without seeing another district either dreaming about or actually implementing some kind of virtual textbook. It seems like years of not quite putting our collective finger on why textbooks always felt like they were cheating our students, the very flexible online and digital environment have finally made it [...]
I guess I just don’t understand the thought process of someone who things that gather names AND passwords for any website is an appropriate way to deal with digital footprints. Seriously.
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 [...]
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