MyNotes - Cutting to the bone
Everytime I read one of these types of articles (this is the second this evening), a part of me starts to ask, "What about your job? The team that works with you? What about their
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iPads, Kindles and Nooks, Oh My!
Like most folks, the thought of losing my print library of books quite an extensive collection gives me chills. In a fire, though, I would probably run out of the house with kids
MyNotes - 10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education
My favorite excerpts...I so agree with the concepts about writing. 10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly Do Your Job Better The Chronicle of Higher Education
MyNotes - Connecting Instructional Tech PD to Teacher Outcomes
Source: Martin, W., Strother, S., Beglau, M., Bates, L., Reitzes, T., Culp, K. M. (2010). Connecting instructional technology professional development to teacher and student
MyNotes - Pepperdine Univ Embraces Sakai and Collab. Tech
The following includes excerpts on why Pepperdine Universivity switched from their current LMS (it would be nice to know what that one was...probably [Blackboard based on this docu
Progressively Unnecessary - Defeat of the Vogons
No matter where I ended up as a teacher during my first 10 years of work in public or private schools, my role as campus technology coordinator was assured. It didn't matter if I w
Publish Yourself
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Borg Your iPad - Running Windows on iPads
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Google Wonder Wheel Now Back!
I missed the first incarnation of the Goog
'Open source will save schools millions' - new report
Great report...I like the 3 points made about saving money in 3 areas that are not unlike what appears in Texas (and U.S.) schools. Hello, world!? Anyone listening? Why are public
Why the iPad
A colleague (Don Hindsley (Email: [email protected]), Whiteface ISD in Texas) recently responded to why use an iPad in sch
MyNotes - Digital Grounding
Whatever works...will there be a time when the technology can't be taken away because it's essential to communication?
MyNotes - iPads for All
Isn't it funny that most educators implementing new technologies use the same kind of language to describe it? Immersed in tech innovative fun better way to learn natives
Wiping FreeSpace on Your Hard Drive(s)
[Last week, I shared my list of favorite priva
Press Release - Borders Celebrates Educators
Press Release.... Borders Celebrates Educa
Clueless
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MyNotes - Linux in Texas Schools
What a great article authored by Scott Rowed shared via Greg Laden's Blog. You will want to read the article in its entirety, but here are some of my…
MyNotes - Writing Project Professional Development Continues to Yield Gains in Student Writing Achievement
Just catching up...if this works, why aren't more doing something with it? [Writing Project Professional Development Continue
MyNotes - Writing, Teens and Technology (2008)
Fascinating insights into teens writing in school. Source: Summary of Findings Pew Internet & American Life Project
Reflecting On Your Principles
George Couros asks some great questions in this blog entry. Here are the answers I aspire to in my head. Miguel's Preferences 1. An
Securing Confidential Info - Laundry List of Privacy Tools
Update 01/3/2012: I now recommend the free, open source AESCrypt in lieu of AxCrypt/NCrypt as a simple, easy to use cross platform encr
Editing GoogleDocs on iPad
"Necessity is the mother of invention," Plato quipped a long time ago (well, maybe he didn't say it quite that way). Editing GoogleDocs with an iPad is a…