Projects

general topics about almost anything, along with some of my projects

blogging, part I (WordPress)

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June 13, 2010

Today I will show you how easy it is to get started with a WordPress.com blog. For what it’s worth, this is the first of three blog installations. The first will be using WordPress.com, second will be using Google’s Blogger software, and then I will start up a blog using Microsoft’s Live Spaces. For this [...]


Blogs for teachers…

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June 11, 2010

In the last several posts I have talked about why blogs have some real value for a lot of people (most of them, people who don’t have blogs…). Today I want to cover some of the advantages there are for teachers to blog. The fact is that blogs can contain a lot of things which [...]


a recap of the 3Pinteract Wiimote presentation system

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April 14, 2010

I first mentioned this system over a month ago, and since then I have been using their portable system almost every day. I have been looking for any problems every day, and I can say now that this is quite a robust system! I got this small package in the mail from New Zealand, and [...]


3Pinteract

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March 13, 2010

Over a month ago I started into what is essentially an overview (and review) of the alternatives in presentation tools available to teachers. The idea which gets the most coverage on websites is the use of a Wiimote as part of a system to create an alternative to use of an interactive white board. There [...]


Smartboards (a start…)

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January 25, 2010

From my previous post about Google Earth (if only for social studies classes…), I think that you can see that this is an ideal application to teach Geography, as well as (to a lesser degree…) World History, American history, and even some topics like current events, and even some of the life sciences. The advantage [...]


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