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Blogging Cycle Again

On December 12, 2011 By

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 [...]

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Workflow

On November 30, 2011 By

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 [...]

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Getting Ready-Part 1

On November 11, 2011 By

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. [...]

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The Mac Came Back

On October 22, 2011 By

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 [...]

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FlipSnack

On May 31, 2011 By

Been reading about Flipsnack for a little while so I thought I would signup and look at the service. Nice user interface upload the pdf and select from a few different templates. You can download the file and host it locally which sounds nice as well. A typical range of embedding options are [...]

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