A pitfall of maintaining multiple blogs simultaneously that I hadn’t discovered: accidentally posting something to the wrong blog. Subscribers may have received a post meant for my baseball team blog on Edumacation. My bad.
Just a quick note on that, though: I’m finding that a team blog is a really effective way to communicate [...]
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I’ve been working on several projects lately and am really engaged in one particular project: Excel for Educators.
In my role as a technology teacher leader, I have been trying to find some training/learning opportunities that teachers can truly benefit from. The lack of attendance at prescribed trainings and the poor response to topics like “Web [...]
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As mentioned a while ago, I’ve been giving some thought to a redesign – both in terms of the appearance/layout of the blog and the thinking behind why I’m doing this. If you’ve visited the site recently, you’ve probably noticed that I’ve hit the appearance/layout redesign and I’m pretty happy with it.
As for the philosophical [...]
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I’m slowly becoming a big believer in the concept of standards-based grading, particularly as it applies to writing. Throughout my own education (which wasn’t all that long ago), I often had no idea what went into the grading of my essays. Though I was an honors/AP student, essay grading often seemed subjective and, while I [...]
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I’ve long held a grudge against Apple’s iPod. There’s really no particularly valid reason (at least, apart from using totally different formats to play music), but I just can’t stand the things. Even when I came into a 2 GB 2nd Gen Nano, I refused to buy into the greatness that is, purportedly, Apple. More [...]
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Just wanted to make a comment on WordPress 2.7’s “QuickPress” feature. It’s a neat little widget on my Dashboard that lets me make a quick post without clicking on anything else. Though not a full featured posting page, it basically inspires quick thoughts or mini-posts that can either be published immediately or saved as a [...]
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