Classroom Tech, Part VI: Cell Phones

I’m nearing the end of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in the [...]

Classroom Tech, Part V: PowerPoint

I’m in the middle of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in the [...]

Classroom Tech, Part IV: Shelfari

I’m in the middle of  a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in the [...]

Classroom Tech, Part III: Animoto

I am in the midst of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in [...]

Classroom Tech, Part II: iGoogle

I am in the midst of a series of posts outlining how I plan on using technology during the coming school year. I’ll share some tools, resources, and ideas that I intend to use with students in the classroom, and hopefully you, the reader, will share some advice or thoughts of your own, either in [...]

Classroom Tech, Part I: Delicious

Like most teachers, I enjoy my summer vacation. The weather is hot, dry, and sunny, I don’t have to go to school, and I have an abundance of time to spend just relaxing. Of course, like most other teachers, I like to waste much of this vacation sitting inside on the computer, planning for the [...]

Learn by Teaching

One of the more interesting truths I’ve learned during the first couple years of teaching is that I have learned so much more by having to teach it than I ever did in school.
I think my favorite example of this is my experience with Romeo and Juliet. When I was in high school, I’m pretty [...]

Debunking the Digital Divide

Carla at the English Teacher Blog posted on rethinking our assumptions about integrating technology. The first assumption she critiques is one that I’ve heard a lot and have a pretty strong opinion about: that “students know more about technology than teachers do.” I wholeheartedly agree with her position that this is proving to be further [...]

How vs. Why

Jeff Utecht wrote a great post on UTechTips about how sometimes “it is about the tool.” He pokes at a phrase our district has used on a number of occasions – that it’s not about the tool; it’s about the learning. The technology, as the saying goes, is just a tool to enhance learning. I [...]

Dealing with Change

“Everything is Changing,” by amanki

WordPress just unleashed a new interface – WordPress 2.7. It features a completely redesigned dashboard that took all of the familiar old buttons and boxes and moved them, recolored them, and sometimes even renamed them. It’s a nice looking redesign and everything I’ve heard suggests that it will end up being [...]