I just received an ISTE update e-mail where they link to their new profile/blog in myspace and their new headquarters in Second Life. Now I’m liking this! ISTE is starting to use the tools we’ve been talking about. How cool is it they set up a myspace account. Gee, sorry all you out there who’s schools block myspace. Is this […]
via bloggingpro.com comes the WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack with three plug-ins to make your blog viewable on mobile devices. Those plug-ins include: WordPress Wii Edition Plugin WordPress DS-Lite Edition Plugin WordPress PSP Edition Plugin To that I would add the WordPress PDA plugin and that about covers it. I already have the PDA plugin installed and used it while in […]
This is an unusual post for me, but my wife received this in an e-mail the other day. Not sure if the research behind it is true. But I share it with you and my friend Sarah. fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i […]
Our new media center is almost complete. 6 Months ago this area was part of the play ground. Next month the building will officially be open for business. When designing the new media center we used the word seamless to define what we wanted information to be for students. Whether paper, digital, audio, or video…information needed to be accessible in […]
Earlier this week I read the first paragraph of Chris Lehmann’s post: Some Thoughts About School 2.0 –Part 1. I knew after the first paragraph that this was one of those posts that I wanted to make sure I was in the right place and right time to read…I’m glad I did. It’s about the pedagogy. Four simple words that […]
There’s a new blog among us. Beyond School: Kicking Addictions to 20th Century Teaching–Because “Gutenberg is dead.” I worked with Clay Burell last year here at SAS. He now works in South Korea and joins the blogosphere will a bunch of ideas for web 2.0 collaborative projects. If you are a teacher looking to do some cross worldly projects, check […]
Bloom’s Taxonomy the foundation for most educators, and education through the last part of the 20th Century looks at Lower-Order Thinking Skills and Higher-Order Thinking Skills. Most educators no matter where they have been educated at one time or another have probably come across Bloom’s Taxonomy. The problem is, created in 1954 does it still apply today? Found on the […]
There’s been some talk around groups in the blogosphere. Some really good discussion happening over on Bud the Teacher’s blog. David Jakes had a great post as well. What’s got me thinking about groups is it’s the US that makes this place powerful not the YOU. Does Time Magazine have it wrong? The YOU, to me, is the people that […]
Due to the Earthquake off of Taiwan on Dec. 26 the Internet here in China is slow if connecting at all with North America. I’m worried as we start school on Monday that our Online classroom (Moodle Site) won’t be available to students and staff. The earthquake cut fiber-optic lines between Asia and North America making the rerouting of Internet […]
Looks like I’ve been tagged by Julie Lindsay to give you 5, maybe unknown, facts about me. So here it goes. 1. I am originally from Greenacres, Washington. Yep, there really is a place named Greenacres just like the old TV show. Overseas I usually tell people I’m from Seattle as it’s a large city that most people know thanks […]