An archived stack of papers: 'educational-technology'
Vocabulary Blogs
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- Apr
- 06
- 2006
Blogs allow for great interaction between author and reader. They also allow for interaction between different readers, something every other media does little to encourage. But if you read something and never talk to anyone else about it, what’s the point? And if it’s only a monologue, even more so.
With vocabulary study, things like The... read more
Vocabulary Via RSS
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- Apr
- 05
- 2006
Want to study a few vocabulary words? Want something like that for your students?
You’ll need an RSS feed of your vocabulary words (Tom put together a quick intro to RSS that might be helpful). ... read more
Copy This
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- Apr
- 04
- 2006
Sticking with the pretty geeky educational requests, today revolves around scanning.
While discussing something in class, my girlfriend used an ACLU ad to make a point about writing argumentative essays. Before I get cries of, “wicked, liberal teachers, forcing their opinions on our youth!”, let it be known that... read more
Grammar With CSS
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- Apr
- 03
- 2006
Here’s the example: Punctuation and Capitalization Practice I’ve typed something into a text file (saved as “text.txt”). I want the contents of that file as a variable in a PHP script so I can do some STR_REPLACE action to it, specifically so I can wrap all punctuation in SPAN tags. Surely, you can... read more
Opinions Are Like… Ideas And Problems: Everyone’s Got ‘Em
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- Jan
- 12
- 2006
Last week, we finished off the week in English 3 with a sort of discussion about some quotations that I’d handed out at the beginning of our Crucible unit (or is it “at the beginning of our The Crucible unit”? oh, the things that drive English teachers crazy). We didn’t huddle our desks together and go round robin with everyone’s response to the five most... read more
The Great Computer Raid of 2005
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- Jun
- 18
- 2005
At school because I need to help out with some department goal setting, yesterday I came upon 3 pallets of computers to be thrown away. They awaited the arrival of the district van to take them to a recycling center. Mind you, I spied this after recent email interaction with the technology coordinator for the district and the vice principal in which I related to both of them that technology is being... read more
Too Much Tech!?
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- May
- 25
- 2005
After reading this blog post and this article , I felt a rant coming on. Once again, what started as a comment turned into a full entry.
The focus and content of the entire article,... read more
In-Class Computer Lab Use
In a stack of papers called Technology.
- Apr
- 11
- 2005
A friend of mine recently went to a conference on educational technology in Pasadena. He turned me on to November Learning, a pretty nifty site by Alan November, who I am quickly learning is the cat I should have been paying close attention to all these... read more