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What I want on my iPad…

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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…

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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…

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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 [...]


tools for presentations…

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September 22, 2010

In my last post, I alluded to the need for teachers to keep their skills up. Within the realm of making presentations, or even the broader world of media use in the classroom, technology never sleeps. I wrote a few things about some of the tools and other adjuncts to making presentations six months ago…there [...]


old school presentation tools…

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September 20, 2010

A long time ago, when I was still in secondary school, the blackboard reigned supreme as an adjunct to any presentation given in class. You could often see a lot about any particular teachers world view in how they would use the board. Some, more mercurial teachers would quickly fill a blackboard with scribbled ramblings. [...]


social engineering…

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September 3, 2010

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 methods, lessons and curricula which I have been subjected to. Since the early 1960’s there [...]


email exchanges for teachers and students

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September 1, 2010

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 that I can’t really see how this could be seen a bugaboo even to some [...]


cell phones in school…

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August 30, 2010

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 and even for K-12 in a few states…). I found a link on the blog [...]


teaching thinking…

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August 21, 2010

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 of small initiatives (by individual teachers) all over the country which are making some progress, [...]


getting things done on the iPad

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July 27, 2010

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 which I can do better on the iPad. But there are a few niggling things [...]


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