I’ve made it a point to take some time out of my busy day to relax and read and respond to some student blogs at our school’s blog headquarters. I’ll try not to do this too ofter..but sometimes the writing and reflection are so good…I just have to share. So here is what has me thinking tonight. Katrinablog Even though […]
The second screencast in the Utechtips series on Firefox is now posted. This screencast goes over using the del.icio.us extension. Install, set up and use. Here it is! [tag]firefox, utechtips[/tags] Technorati Tags: firefox, firefox2, del.icio.us, delicious, screencast, education
I’m proud…proud as an employee can be, that my principal just started his own professional blog. He’s had one for school purposes for a couple of months now…but now he has his own professional blog as well. Sentiments on Common Sense joins the blogging community. Andy starts this blog as he heads out of Shanghai bound for the States to […]
Yesterday I, along with about 10 other educators from my school, went to the first Apple seminar for international schools held here in Shanghai. Apple has sent a team here to “break into the international school market in Asia.” They are based in Beijing but travel around Asia promoting their products and what they can offer to schools who are […]
There is this amazing elementary school counselor at our school (Full Disclosure: I’m married to her) who set out about a month ago to incorporate technology into her classroom lessons around friendship. She found the school’s resident techno geek and putting their heads together they came up with a plan to help 4th graders better understand the meaning of friendship, […]
I swear I passed myself in the hallway today. The last two weeks have been a whirl wind but I wanted to take some time at 11pm tonight to actually reflect on the past two weeks and some fun and amazing stuff that is going on here. Last week I set up all 3 of my classes with a netvibes […]
My first screencast is up over at U Tech Tips. A very basic tour for educators to get them familiar with Firefox. Basically to show that all the things that you are familiar with in IE are still there. Plus you learn how to add a theme. The best part about this screencast is that the new Intro and Exit […]
Popular enough for North Carolina to hold their own Science Blogging Conference. Now is it just me or is this the start of something? A state conference around blogging, and specific to a field like science. How long before your state has a Educational Blogging Conference and is there such thing as a National or International Blogger Con? The cool […]
I wrote a blog entry over at techlearning yesterday called New ways to communicate talking about some of the new ways technology can impact learning in school. Wednesday I had a chance to try some distance learning out on my own. I work on two difference campuses that are, by taxi, about 2 hours apart. I’ve picked up a class […]
Easy….your anti-virus can’t update fast enough. Last weekend while the western world was sleeping a sneaky little virus came crawling into my computer….by Monday I was sweating to recover my files. Today another virus attach on our schools system flooding our system with false packets of information therefore not allowing computers to connect to the servers or the Internet. You […]