Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
My school district got an unpleasant surprise recently when the auditors discovered a shortfall of $4.3 million for the 2004-2005 budget year. The district has prepared a plan to make up the shortfall as quickly as possible, but the bad news for me is that the plan means that my ...
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Monday, November 28th, 2005
I've been curious about Google's AdSense program for a while so I installed the AdSense plugin for WordPress and signed up. I have no illusions about making any money from this, and it's the last time I'll mention it on my blog unless something really interesting happens. I guess I'm ...
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Monday, October 31st, 2005
If you share my belief that Creative Commons is fighting the good fight for a sensible approach on intellectual property and copyright issues, please take a minute to click the button on this page and give "$5 for the Commons." If you can afford more than $5, then you may ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
Evaluating Digital Products: Raising the Bar For Student Achievement, Bernajean Porter, BJP Consulting
We watched an example of a student-produced film about the bombing of Hiroshima and discussed how we would assess it. It was difficult to say since we weren't the ones that gave the assignment, but it got the ...
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Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
I carry my 15-inch Apple PowerBook pretty much everywhere I go. Until recently I used a standard leather shoulder bag to lug my gear. But when the seams started to give way, the zipper broke, and my neck finally couldn't take it anymore I decided to trade up to a ...
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Monday, September 5th, 2005
What happens when the tip of a thumb meets the very sharp blade of a Pampered Chef slicer?
You don't want to know.
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Monday, August 22nd, 2005
I organized a two-day "Filmmaking for Educators" workshop for about 15 teachers last week. The participants learned about the basics of filmmaking, wrote their script, shot the video, edited the footage, and presented their work at a film festival at the end of the second day. Everyone had a great ...
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Friday, August 12th, 2005
I'm hoping to get a little geocaching in this weekend on a brief camping trip. My first step was to head over to geocaching.com and search for any geocaches near where we'll be camping. Of course there were, but it can be difficult sometimes to know exactly how close they ...
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Monday, August 8th, 2005
Rich Trouton has published his review of Apple's built-in Blojsom-based blog server. I'm planning to entice a teacher or two to give blogging a try this year using the blogging capabilities of our OS X server. I love the ability to control access to the blogs using the server's access control ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Will references the NYT article and I saw similar results as I was looking over research in preparation for our one-to-one project. Our high school students aren't being challenged. From the article:
A large majority of high school students say their class work is not very difficult, and almost two-thirds say ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
I'm hanging out in the open source pavilion watching Tom Hoffman do a demonstration of the new SchoolTool open source school management system. SchoolTool is a product being development by the Shuttleworth Foundation and Tom is the project manager.
We're looking at the calendaring features which allow students to create and ...
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
The presenter in my cyberbullying session at NECC today showed an role playing simulation built with a piece of software called Kar2ouche. According to the compnay that created it, Kar2ouche "helps students to develop contextual understanding, critical interpretation and individual expression through a wide range of cross-curricular creative activities including ...
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