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social engineering…
From my situation regarding the teaching business, I have been a student for well over forty years (ahem…maybe more than a few…), and as a teacher I currently have the opportunity to look over (via my memory) the various teaching … Continue reading
email exchanges for teachers and students
Since the school year is upon us, I think that this is as good a time as any to consider some of the more reasonable uses of what has become not modern, but present technology. Email has become ubiquitous enough … Continue reading
cell phones in school…
Over the weekend, I have been doing a bit of surfing to see what education related articles are online. My main reason was that the school year is about to start (actually it has started in some colleges last week … Continue reading
teaching thinking…
Long before I got into the education business I would hear lots about critical thinking, and how there is seemingly a dearth of thought on high school and college campuses. To be honest, I imagine that there are a lot … Continue reading
getting things done on the iPad
I am in the process of getting my iPad set up as an actual tool (in order to allow me to get more things done…). Besides still being somewhere on the learning curve, I’ve found that there are some things … Continue reading
a few apps for teachers
With all that I have seen on education blogs proselytizing the advances that will come from such things as: Twitter, Facebook, Amazon.com’s Kindle readers, the iPad, and even the iPod touch…I finally found a few very simple applications which might … Continue reading
really going paperless…
I am in the process of making the jump to becoming as paperless as is possible…I have been using some tools like EverNote and Read it Later (along with a longer list of others…) to get to the place where … Continue reading
I try out some Wikis
I have looked over the free Wikis out there and have come to the conclusion that there are two reasonable candidates for review. The first site I found (wikispaces.com) is one of the larger Wiki hosting sites. The other is … Continue reading
Wikis…
I wrote a number of posts covering how to set up a blog (using three of the most common (free) services out there). From the standpoint of being a teacher, I decided to continue with this method…into the world of … Continue reading
blogging, the taste test!
For today, I can finally take a little time to evaluate and compare the free blogs I have set up in the last week. I have sites at WordPress.com, Blogger, and Windows Live Spaces. TO make this ‘taste test’ as … Continue reading