Back in 2010 I wondered about the effects that ebooks and the Ipad would have on education. Today I think we are moving away from desktops and laptops and towards tablets and I can see tools like iBooks Author accelerating the movement towards digital books. Creative, intelligent, collaborative teachers need few things [...]
Continue Reading →I wrote before about my thoughts on blogging, Diigo and Zotero. I created a cycle that I wanted the kids to go through with their blogging (I like mind maps). The cycle is fairly simple, students are given a reading, they use Diigo to mark up the document to create sticky notes and then [...]
Continue Reading →When my laptop got stolen I bought a new one. Well actually SSIS bought it for me and I get to pay them back one month at a time for the next few months. I was lucky to get it back but my new laptop is…..well…….better. It’s been a few months since this happened and I [...]
Continue Reading →We have looked at having students at each grade level sharing a common list of sidebar links. The plan at one grade level is to have the link list organized through advisory class. With this setup a simple way of doing this is to have the students add themselves to the advisory teachers’ link list. [...]
Continue Reading →I guess it all started with a tweet from Alex Couros back in February.
Just installed Prey – helps you track missing or stolen devices. http:// preyproject.com
I checked out the link he gave and after reading about it I installed Prey on my Macbook Pro then forgot about it.
On Tuesday morning of September [...]
Continue Reading →From Twitter
- Where do I get started with eportfolios? | @scoopit http://t.co/ra0xcM3p 4 days ago
- Education Week: E-Portfolios Evolve Thanks to Web 2.0 Tools | @scoopit http://t.co/lzyub8fb 4 days ago
- luv Bao's last line"But here’s the weird part, I never thought the things we used in ICT could be use to other classes" http://t.co/4e19p1qk 5 days ago
- Interesting take on using technology in the classroom by Bao. http://t.co/4e19p1qk #comments4kids 5 days ago
- Our school blog is getting closer to being done using the canvas theme from @woothemes would love feedback http://t.co/YZYpAy0k 5 days ago
- More updates...
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