Jeff Utecht – Educator, Consultant, Author
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The Best $25 Your School will Spend this Year
Sep 15th
Of course I’m talking about a Flickr Pro Account. Flickr has to be the one website that I would say is definitly worth the $25 you’ll spend and can benefit every teacher in the school. There is no way, I don’t care how big or small your school is that for $25 you can create, maintain, and support:
- Unlimited uploads and storage
- Unlimited sets and collections
- Access to your original files
That word unlimited is where it’s worth its weight in gold. We’re in our second year of using Flickr here at ISB and we’ve found it so useful that we bought three accounts one More >
The Stick turns 3!
Sep 24th
I told this story as my 10 minute TED talk at Learning 2.008. As September 19th was The Stick’s 3 year anniversary.
The Thinking Stick turned 3 a few days ago and it’s hard to imagine that it’s been 3 years since I installed WordPress and just started writing. As I started looking back through those first posts I started thinking about the journey that this blog has taken me on.
My first blog post was about a 5th grade classroom called the Polar Bear Class. The website no longer exists but this was my beginning into blogging. Talking about a class that More >
Communicating from the classroom
Sep 10th
As a technology person you don’t always get to decide where you are going to start with teachers. In fact, most of the time the teachers tell you where you are going to start.
Hence my focus on parent communication. Many teachers are looking at using blogs as a way to communicate with their parent communities.
Now, before I go any further I say they “use blogs” but that doesn’t mean they are blogging. I do believe there is a difference. Teachers find the ease of which you can setup a web site and post new content using a blogging program simple More >
Parent Communication: From Print to Digital
Sep 3rd
Over the last couple of years I have helped numerous teachers set up blogs, wikis, and just plain old html pages to be used to communicate with parents.
As some point teachers always ask:
“So, I can just copy and paste my newsletter right here?”
You can, but you shouldn’t
Newsletters do not transfer well to the web. Well, as in the amount of information people expect and will pay attention to in digital form.
For example: Most parent newsletters are two pages long (or front and back). Parents will read a two page newsletter that comes home in the Friday folder, but they won’t More >
Three Gems for the day
Aug 5th
I use to look over people’s blogs that had del.icio.us post linking to all the things they bookmarked that day. I use to think that this was a waste of my time, that those links are just links.
Then I actually started reading some.
Which lead to clicking on some.
Which now has me waiting for people like Dean and Tim to post their next round.
The great part is I know I don’t have to read them everyday. I wait until I have five or six days worth of links from Dean and Tim and then I go at it clicking and opening tabs.
Basically I’m using More >
Flickr Stats
May 30th
Was trying to add a flickr picture to a post today and found out that flickr was down. Headed over to the flickr blog where they give these latest stats:
Miscellaneous stats to keep you entertained while we wait:
* Our networking gear moves 12,000 photos a second — at peak, that’s 2,654,208,000 bits each second (8:20 PM) * We set an all-time upload record yesterday: 2,070,075 photos in 24 hours! (8:40 PM) * The Flickrverse has 8.5 million registered members (9:00 PM)
Now that’s a lot of user created content!
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