Recap of work

Recap of work

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 […]

Intro to Firefox2 for Educators Screencast

Intro to Firefox2 for Educators Screencast

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 […]

Just how popular is blogging?

Just how popular is blogging?

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 […]

What happens when you are ahead of the world?

What happens when you are ahead of the world?

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 […]

Gollum browser-The Wikipedia Browser

Gollum browser-The Wikipedia Browser

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 […]

Student 2.0-Creating content for the world

Student 2.0-Creating content for the world

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 […]

When blogging catches on in schools!

When blogging catches on in schools!

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 […]

Top 5 Firefox2 extensions for educators

Top 5 Firefox2 extensions for educators

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 […]

ISTE….getting into the read/write web

ISTE….getting into the read/write web

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 […]

Mobile your blog

Mobile your blog

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 […]