I announced to my classes today that we would no longer use computers in the classroom for the rest of the trimester. Some students were happy, others were annoyed, and a few didn’t know what to think. They had been using computers in the classroom for the past two weeks with my student teacher and…
Take a moment to answer the “Why” question posed. Some tools for the transition: ACOTs Unit of Practice PBL planning sheet Other notes we’ll post here later. Good luck!
So, this has happened to my wife’s laptop before, but my father-in-law got the Malware from hell. It’s the one that poses as a virus scanner and unless you “buy” their product every time you get on the internets or click the button of “No” (that you don’t want to protect your computer), connstant popup windows until…
After a little time off, we’re back again with a new podcast: No Reform. After my little rant entitled: In education, there really is no reform and let’s just drop all of the rhetoric and let the people who need to teach, teach…I get back to some more practical ideas. With Ning.com announcing their new…
After a year of concentrating my efforts on my summer project, 40 Plays in 40 Days, I’m ready to return again to this topic of technology in education and how really messed up were are sometimes in the thinking that the Internet or Web 2.0 or a Kindle or iPod Touch or any of the…
We’re really not sure how it happened or what triggered it, all I know is that my wife’s gMail got cracked and the ISP address notes the location of the “doings” somewhere in Nigeria. Yes, it’s cliche: an email asking for money scheme. Somewhere around 3:30 am, someone (or something) scrapped her account, took her…
Perhaps we shouldn’t even file this under the “made common sense awhile ago” category, but Education Week is reporting the following about the 21st Century Skills movement: The phrase “21st-century skills” is everywhere in education policy discussions these days, from faculty lounges to the highest echelons of the U.S. education system. Broadly speaking, it refers…
RIS (Randomly Interesting Stuff) Memiary (www.memiary.com)Record five memories a dayGMail TasksGmail now adds tasks to your email interface. (see GMail blog entry) Show Notes:There are significant business losses and now those same businesses are asking the government for a bailout; these same businesses blame the economy for their problems. And yet schools have been forced…
Recently our local paper decided to liveblog the last two Presidential debates and the one VP debate. Let’s take a look at how to set up a liveblog and consider why liveblogging an event might be a good idea. The Elkhart Truth has been looking at ways for their paper to interact with their readers…
Here’s an exchange I had with a teacher in our building regarding chats: Chris, Another Moodle question: I have set up a chat for tomorrow at 8:05–how do I limit the duration of it? I only want it to last for 5-6 minutes. Dawn *** Dawn, I typically don’t have a limit on chats…just…