29Just as I’m having conversations again around why we should or shouldn’t teach typing in our schools technology has once again moved us into another typing realm. The thumb typing.
I’ve watched more videos than I care to count about the iPad (my thoughts here) and in a recent survey to our students here at...
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2Kevin Honeycutt…..you rock!
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0Two recent articles and other observations have me thinking about the need to restructure journalism programs or school newspaper programs in our high schools. Some interesting ideas and developments lately that if I was a journalist teacher I’d be sharing and discussing with my students.
First from Mashable comes 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist...
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0Over the past couple of days I’ve had one simple question that I can’t get out of my head.
Why do we believe that every teacher having a computer on their desk will benefit teaching and learning, but giving one to students wouldn’t?
It’s a simple question isn’t it? I mean….when I started teaching in 1999...
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2So maybe I’ve been reading to much Lifehacker lately. But I got to school this morning and some how got thinking about how I could hack-up the Google Doc Application that you get from Google when you install Google Gears to work with our school educational Google Apps domain.
So here are the steps on...
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0So I read Dean Shareski’s post Why Audience Matters earlier today and just finished reading Clarence’s follow up post and thought I’d add to the conversation as well.
Dean does a great job talking about the different roles an audience can play and I’d like to extend his list.
Audience as Community
Your audience becomes a community...
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0I know it sounds like such a stupid question….and maybe content has always trumped actual learning but I continue to find myself in conversations that end with:
“I’d love to do so much more, but we have to cover all this content and I just don’t have time.”
Why is that? Why is content…which is now...
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0Yesterday in our cohort reflecting session at the EARCOS Admin Conference we talked a lot about 1:1 programs. Everyone trying to figure out what works, what doesn’t, where to start, and the questions go on and on.
I do think we can learn from each other as schools continue to strive to use technology at...
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