Posted in Education, English, Technology on Aug 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Clive Thompson writes an interesting article in this month’s Wired magazine where he discusses the literacy habits of students. I found some of his findings to be quite remarkable. The study he cites throughout the article is the Stanford Study of Writing, which collected 14,672 writing samples from students over the course of five years. [...]
Posted in Education, Technology on Jan 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Here is a blog posting from Vicki Davis that breaks down “Web 2.0″ for beginners. If you don’t know what Web 2.0 is, then you MUST read this. Vicki is a talented educator from Georgia (USA) who is a prolific blogger. If you like what you read in this posting you should consider subscribing to [...]
Posted in Education, English, Technology on Nov 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) and The Partnership for 21st Century Skills have just released a map (here it is) that demonstrates how they envision 4th, 8th, and 12th grade students utilizing Web 2.0 tools to enhance their learning. In their words:
The Partnership has forged alliances with key national organizations that represent [...]
Posted in Education, Technology on Oct 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
One of the great things about the Internet is that it allows information to be transferred in a format that has not been possible before. Case in point is professional development. In the past if you wanted to learn from your colleagues around the world, you would have to travel to an international or national [...]
Posted in Technology on Sep 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
This week’s blog topic is the web service Remember The Milk (henceforth known as RTM.) RTM is a free web service that helps you remember everything from important events to menial tasks.
Here are just a few of the features of RTM (facts stolen directly from their site!) :
Manage tasks quickly and easily. – [...]
Posted in Technology on Sep 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
Before we get going here, I am curious if this is a viable means of conducting technology staff development. I have had several people stop me in the halls to tell me that they are enjoying following the blog. Would you mind leaving a quick (short) comment at the end of this post just so [...]
Posted in Technology on Sep 10th, 2008 No Comments »
This week we move into a much more exciting area, which is also much more difficult to master. We are going to tackle Google Mail or gMail as it is more commonly called. I first was turned on to gMail about 1.5 years ago by my lovely wife Erin. I noticed her managing her account [...]
Posted in Technology on Sep 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Before we get into anything really exciting on the Internet we need to make sure that our entry portal to the Internet is ready for the workout that we will be putting it through over the next several weeks. It is with this in mind that I recommend Mozilla Firefox to you as the best [...]
Posted in Google, Technology on Aug 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Please do not e-mail me with questions regarding this post. The proper net etiquette is to stick your questions, praise, complaints, etc. as a comment at the end of this post. Thanks.
Take a second and think about whatever computer you and/or your family owned 10 years ago. Did you realize that the odds are [...]
Posted in Education, Technology on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I just finished reading a blog entry named Gin, Television, and Social Surplus. It was writtten by Clay Shirky, author of the book “Here Comes Everybody,” which I had the pleasure to read over spring break. In this post Shirky talks about how the post WWII/industrilized world in America gave us a commodity [...]
