Your new Dell computers show up in the back of a bike. 🙂 Taken by our High School Principal and appropriately named “Mobile Technology in China” [tags]Jokes[/tags]
The Integration that must not be named
Sorry about the title, but 5 years of teaching elementary school…I just couldn’t resist. David Warlick wrote this the other day and I’ve had 3 very uncomfortable nights thinking about what I wanted to say. That and being swamped at work has me posting late to the conversation. ItÂ’s why I try not to use that word, and urge others […]
Stopping the Spam
I went to leave a comment on Tim Lauer’s blog yesterday and found out that he has disabled commenting on his blog. I wonder if this is because of all the spam that’s been going around lately. Last weekend in a period of 5 hours I had over 200 spam comments. So I quickly searched for a WordPress plug in […]
Transition Techies
Graham Wegner left a comment on a posting the other day, and like I try to do with everyone that leaves a comment I visited his blog to see what he’s talking about. After almost a year of being in the edublogosphere it still amazes me how few blogs I know about which is why I’m promoting the use of […]
My school's podcast site
OK so I have to work on my mic levels a little and found out why when I talked to Tim Wilson at NECC he said a good pair a headphones is a must. Picking up a set this weekend. Let me introduce to you one of two big projects of mine this year.Pudong Nerve Central: Podcast Headquarters of SAS-PudongBasically […]
Customization Generation
Derek walked into technology class like he does every A day on his schedule. A quick “Hello Mr. U” and off to his computer. By the time I greet the other students and we begin class Derek has done the following to his class computer: 1. Change the desktop background to another picture in the sample picture folder. Why? Because […]
Two great classroom moments
So yesterday I got all my 7th graders signed into their Moodle class for the semester. As the students came walking in I had written on the board one simple question: How old is the World Wide Web? Our first area of study in the class is the history of computers and the history of the Internet, so it made […]
Learning how to learn
On Thursday last week (the first day of school) I met my 6th grade technology class for the first time. After introductions were out of the way. I gave the students a little pretest on Excel. The first program we are going to look at. I asked the students how many of them had experience with Excel and about half […]
You can't stop progress
It’s Sunday and I was looking forward to a nice lie in this morning. (lie in means sleep in in Australian terms…one of the 7 English languages I speak!) When I was awoken by louder then usual construction work around our apartment. I’ve gotten use to the jackhammer that seems to be pounding away 24/7 out our back window were […]
My 25% PD
Back at it again. Yesterday was the kids first day at school and even thought it was a short week for them, it seemed long to the rest of us. The last couple of days before kids show up is always a tug of war between meetings and class prep time. But some how, some way, we always find a […]