Our web designer here at school just e-mailed this to me. Gollum Browser works best with Firefox and opens and overlays a layer on Firefox that allows you to quickly and easily search Wikipedia articles. If Wikipedia is blocked at your school is this away around it? I was impressed with the speed. Wikipedia is blocked here in China, but […]
I love reading student writing on the web! From teentek.com Forget about visiting websites! Make them come to you! For all you people out there who are so busy you don’t even have the time to visit websites, here’s something for you! Netvibes is a website where you can create and personalize your own website. It’s not like myspace where […]
86…the number of blogs now at Shanghai American School. Most of them are just getting started while others are really starting to get some good content, and there will be more to come! It’s funny how a good thing, when given support, just takes off. It happened with Moodle in our High School primarily where everyday somewhere in the ballpark […]
I’m in the process of making a bunch of Screencasts for educators on using Firefox2 and thought I’d ask anyone who is interested to chime in. What are the top 5 Firefox2 extensions every educator should have? Such a simple question I know. My debate right now is whether to promote zotero or diigo. I’ve just stated playing with diigo […]
I just received an ISTE update e-mail where they link to their new profile/blog in myspace and their new headquarters in Second Life. Now I’m liking this! ISTE is starting to use the tools we’ve been talking about. How cool is it they set up a myspace account. Gee, sorry all you out there who’s schools block myspace. Is this […]
via bloggingpro.com comes the WordPress Ultimate Gamer’s Pack with three plug-ins to make your blog viewable on mobile devices. Those plug-ins include: WordPress Wii Edition Plugin WordPress DS-Lite Edition Plugin WordPress PSP Edition Plugin To that I would add the WordPress PDA plugin and that about covers it. I already have the PDA plugin installed and used it while in […]
This is an unusual post for me, but my wife received this in an e-mail the other day. Not sure if the research behind it is true. But I share it with you and my friend Sarah. fi yuo cna raed tihs, yuo hvae a sgtrane mnid too. Cna yuo raed tihs? Olny 55 plepoe out of 100 can. i […]
Our new media center is almost complete. 6 Months ago this area was part of the play ground. Next month the building will officially be open for business. When designing the new media center we used the word seamless to define what we wanted information to be for students. Whether paper, digital, audio, or video…information needed to be accessible in […]
Earlier this week I read the first paragraph of Chris Lehmann’s post: Some Thoughts About School 2.0 –Part 1. I knew after the first paragraph that this was one of those posts that I wanted to make sure I was in the right place and right time to read…I’m glad I did. It’s about the pedagogy. Four simple words that […]
There’s a new blog among us. Beyond School: Kicking Addictions to 20th Century Teaching–Because “Gutenberg is dead.” I worked with Clay Burell last year here at SAS. He now works in South Korea and joins the blogosphere will a bunch of ideas for web 2.0 collaborative projects. If you are a teacher looking to do some cross worldly projects, check […]