Are you blocking YouTube in your district? If so, that’s quite unfortunate, as you are blocking thousands of amazing content providers that want to give access to their library of interesting, engaging materials to the student in your schools. No, I am not talking about the LOL Cats. Here are five things that your students
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Inspired by an article in today’s Lifehacker, I installed Ubuntu 11.04, the upcoming release of the open source operating system. I have a castaway laptop that I use for such purposes. Ubuntu 11.04 (nicknamed Natty Narwhal) is still very much in beta, and not ready for a production environment, but, it a beautiful evolution in
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This is mind blowing: Using a Lego NXT with Lego’s, a HTC Desire with a custom app, and a Megaminx (Think Rubics Cube but harder) David Gilday’s machine solves the Megaminx in 8 minutes 4 seconds. Looking at this through an educators view I was struck by a few things: First, this would be an
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I will fully admit that I didn’t get Twitter when it was first firing up at the next great Web 2.0 tool, but I must say that it has grown on me. Sure, I am still not getting the same kind of PLN response times that the A-list tweeters and bloggers get when they ask
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How far we have come: 1989 2011 A few thoughts: I am glad we have moved on from “Adjustable volume control” being a selling point. Was it really ever “cool” to be rockin’ the huge battery pack on your shoulder. What has improved more in 22 years: Cellphones or Marketing? I wonder how teachers were
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