Category: Education Technology

  • RePost from WordPress Update Blog

    Now More Than Ever: Just Write. The new updates are a wonderful addition and make my schoolwork, just that much easier to accomplish. Now is the time to switch to WordPress for anyone thinking about it. In the past, I promoted Blogger and Wikispaces for all my classroom needs but now I find myself squarely…

  • Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post

    Va. Board of Education urges policy on social networks as teaching tools – The Washington Post. Kimiya Haghighi, 17, had a prose problem. As much as her teachers preached concise writing, her sentences remained long and overwrought — the words poured out, unpunctuated, one after another. Then Aubrey Ludwig, her 11th-grade English teacher at Langley…

  • ReBlog of Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Facebook Friending 101 for Schools

    This is an excerpt from CoolCat Teacher’s Blog on Facebook and its new reality in the classroom space. I highly recommend everyone follow the pingback at the bottom of my excerpt and read the entire article. Great work on a complicated and touchy subject in some schools. Facebook has added an incredible complexity to our…

  • ReBlog Ars Tehcnica: Woz tells teachers to us tech!

    For years, i have been a fan of Steve Wozniak, the Woz. Even though he doesn’t call the shots in Cupertino, lots of people in the industry look to him for advice. After reading about this interview I was pleasantly surprised. Woz, Apple, and education make for a great Combination During a conference for educators…

  • KySTE11 Presentation Resources

    Patchwork to Progress: Transitions to a Digital Media Classroom. PowerPoint and Poster Wikispaces and My Old Class page And EKU Writing Project Blogger and My Alternate Class Page Edublogs: education only blogging portal and host site PB Works: Does have a subscription cost associated with it. Bud Hunt: WordPress Page and Wiki about blogging and…

  • ReBlog School Library Journal: GA schools and iPads

    I was emailed about this EdTech story today and find it utterly scary and radically amazing at the same time. In a move led by its senate president Tommie Williams, the state is looking to see if it can substitute print books with iPads, according to a recent story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (Williams did…