I posted awhile back about moving our learning site to a dedicated server. Well the paper work should be in later this week and next week I should be able to start migrating the site…depending on how fast I can learn how to mange a Linux server..which I’ve never done before. I feel a steep unlearn relearn curve ahead. I’ve […]
You hear all the time about how fast Shanghai is growing, and how fast they are/can build stuff in this country. Well here is a great example. They broke ground on our new high school sometime early January when we were away on Winter holiday. The school will be finished in August when students arrive. That’s 8 months to build […]
You know when you’ve been Geek!ed! when listening to a podcast becomes workout music! It’s sad really I know. But it makes 30 minutes on the treadmill fly by! I’m a couple episodes behind right now, which isn’t a bad thing because I can listen to a Geek!ed! podcast both days I run. This week I was listening to episode […]
Reece left a comment the other day that I thought I’d try and answer. I’m also wondering which “subject area teachers†are using blogs other than in English since blogging is primarily writing. Well let’s see…after a quick look at our school’s blog site here’s what I found: Pudong 4th Grade Blog (A group blog written by all our 4th […]
So what happens when you put 1200+ Moodle Users in 88 courses and 560+ WordPress blogs all on the same shared hosting server? You exceed your CPU usage. We have been getting this warning for a couple of months now, but as we continue to add more blogs and users in Moodle, it’s happening more frequently. Yesterday I was trying […]
On my posting the other day about our school setting up a YouTube account Jeff Dungan left the following comment: …any tips you can give me to take to my administration/board since they are not receptive to the idea of allowing this to be unblocked/used at our school? Anything that you can offer in terms of support for our argument […]
The EARCOS Teachers conference (East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools) that I will be presenting at later this month now has a hitchhikr page. The tag for the conference will be earcos07. If you are planing on going and will be blogging the conference please use this tag. I’ve also e-mailed EARCOS to see if they will add this […]
Tonight I’m sitting here shaking my head at all the amazing things that teachers are doing this year and how we are changing the way we use technology. Teachers continue to find great ways to incorperate these new tools. Here is a look at some of the great things happening as my school. First let’s start with my 7th Graders […]
If you really want to see students squirm in their seats…give them choices. Yesterday I was approached by two teachers who wanted help coming up with ways to incorporate technology into some upcoming lessons. Both of them wanted to “do something differentâ€. Which is a good sign, and shows that our Tech Fest has sparked some interest. After listening to […]
My wife sent me this article last week (found it in her RSS feed 🙂 ) Mourning on MySpace – Via CNN People often say that being a ‘geek’ and being on the computer all the time must be a lonely life, but with the new interactive nature of the web, it’s the exact opposite. MySpace avoids deleting the deceased’s […]