10 Reasons to Trash Word for Google Docs
A blog post I wrote to High School Students. As I’ve been helping students get going with their gmail accounts and blogs over the past couple…
Category: Random Thoughts
Personalizing Education in a Standards-Based System
My thoughts after reading Seth Godin’s post Back to (the wrong) school and Douglas Rushkoff post Are Jobs Obsolete? The other day I was looking at a…
5 Gmail Tips for Teachers
As we move to Google Apps for Education at my school I gave a quick 10 minute talk at a staff meeting on 5…
Some times you need to throw out the container with the leftovers
It’s been said many times: If you give every student a laptop but do not fundementally change the way you teach than the power…
Virtual Bulletin Board
At ISB we’ve struggled over the past couple of years in defining our web spaces. Although we’ve been getting better at using the “Core…
A Day through Screenshots
Throughout a day at work I end up taking and sending a lot of screenshots to teachers to help them troubleshoot issues or just…
Appointment Slots in Google Calendar
A great feature popped up in my Google Apps for Educaiton GCal the other day. I was putting in some meetings and noticed an…
Working with the Willing
So a new school year is upon us, as today was the first day for students at ISB. I spent the first hour helping…
Officially a Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer
In May I noticed I was being asked to hold more and more trainings at my own school and around the world on Google…
Google Apps, WP Blogs, Moodle
View from my place in bangkok Still trying to remember where my summer went, I find myself back in Bangkok and preparing for the…