As an itinerant teacher, I have spent a lot of time evaluating various state standards, the results of curriculum reviews, textbook reviews, etc. All of these actions are related to devising a list of the things which we want our students to learn (or rather, a list of what we will be teaching). There have [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2010
some podcast accessories…
October 26, 2010
From the previous post you can see that I have embarked upon a form of online learning. I started a podcast series from iTunes U covering economic history. Besides wanting to gain some of this knowledge, I had a few other reasons for taking this virtual class. In the last forty years, I have read [...]
…in which I take a podcast class…
October 25, 2010
Over the last couple of years I have run across such online amenities as the Khan academy, iTunes U, TED, and a number of other sites which provide Information in such a manner that I can see a possible future on higher education. All of these sites are essentially free, and even from my position, [...]
teaching to the test…
October 23, 2010
If you hang round with school teachers, this (i.e. teaching to the test) is a pejorative term you will hear quite a lot. It has gotten to the point that I hear this not as a meme (bad enough, as in unevaluated talking points), but as a sort of badge of identification. In any case, [...]
What I want on my iPad…
October 19, 2010
I realized that I have had my iPad for enough time to start to consider making a list of the things I would like to change (or even to get rid of…). Obviously there are plenty of good things about the iPad…any cursory search online would show you that. But I have spent a little [...]
my new guitar rig…
October 18, 2010
I suppose I should preface some of my remarks by defining a few terms and concepts. 1. A guitar rig is the accompanying gear which an electric guitarist needs to be heard (in the manner to which the guitarist would want to be heard…). 2. I have run seemingly innumerable guitar rigs in the last [...]
my personal network…
October 14, 2010
A couple years ago I was looking into replacing my laptop, to make a long, mundane, and tiresome story a bit shorter (thanks!) I came to see that I could replace my relatively powerful laptop with a much cheaper (much less powerful) NetBook, especially if I were to bolster this acquisition with a smart phone [...]
different ways to provoke thoughts
October 11, 2010
When confronted with the banality of most of Facebook, Twitter…OK, almost all social networking, as well as online commerce sites, it’s nice to see that there are a few sites which are a huge source for thought provoking ideas, and imagination. Of course, I am talking about such sites as TED, and some others such [...]
online apps for the classroom
October 4, 2010
Every time I come to a different classroom I am struck by the amount of technology that is in place. Almost every classroom I have worked in as a student teacher, a substitute or as a teacher have had at least one computer, a DVD player, and a projection TV and/or a projector. The simple [...]
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