Yehuda a blog out of Israel has nice 10 item list of things to remember about blogging. It’s titled: How I Became a Professional Blogger. Not sure at what point a blogger becomes a professional blogger but I like his list. 1. Have something to offer2. Pick a subject that you’re passionate about3. Don’t be afraid of failing4. Make blogging […]
The past 4 days I swear I’ve done nothing but send faxes. Why is that? What makes a fax so much more secure than an e-mail with a digital secure PDF document? It’s frustrating really. It’s hard to find a fax machine anymore and I’ve ended up spending over $10 faxing stuff to people. When I asked a university person […]
I’ve been spending a lot of time offline lately. We’ve been in the States for about a week and have been spending time talking with friends and family. It’s been good spending time disconnected and connecting with people we only see for a couple weeks each summer. On Saturday my mother had an end of the year staff party for […]
Last week while at the Second Life ISTE social hour someone brought up Twitter and “I don’t get it.” So I took it upon myself to try and explain what makes Twitter so….should I say addicting. I tried…and failed horribly, but it has had me thinking these past couple days, what is it about Twitter that makes it so interesting. […]
NECC has set up their bloggers page, a great list of people blogging the conference. If you’re not on the list, no worries (I wasn’t last year) you can still blog. Just make sure you tag your posts with necc, necc07, necc2007. NECC has also done something else cool this year. They have given each session its own tag, so […]
Just an FYI if you are a big Google Calendar user like I am. You can create your NECC schedule using the conference planner that NECC provides on their site. You can then click on Handheld Users and export your planner to your computer. Then: 1. At the top of the calendar list on the left, click the “Add” down-arrow […]
Last week I sat down with the kids in my elective class who run teentek.com and podcasted a session with them about the class and the Microsoft Surface. At about the 8 minute mark one of the students says something to the affect that: “Parents don’t get it. They think we need to go outside and ride our bikes to […]
Yesterday Mr. Hossack’s class of 5th graders got to take part in something new and cool. They had a video Skype call with a 7th grade class in Los Angles, California. Barbara Barreda contacted me a couple weeks ago and we started planning. Of course planning didn’t go to smoothly on our end. We are two days from ending school […]
I stopped by the EduBloggerCon web site to make sure I hadn’t missed any information about the upcoming event. I took a look at the attending page and for the first time really stopped to look through the names of everyone that is going to be there. I can’t believe I actually get to meet all these people in person. […]
Some interesting conversations have come out of my last post “Goodbye to your job.“ Now do I seriously thing that the Microsoft Surface is going to make teachers obsolete? No, but I do believe a product like the Microsoft Surface is going to push teachers to rethink education. Especially if students are already telling me “You won’t have a job.” […]