During my fifteen years of teaching, I often used food analogies in my teaching. Eating is something we all understand and hopefully enjoy. Locating and eating the ‘right foods’ is something we can all aspire. While searching for some new recipes this summer, I spent time at two sites: Epicurious and Eattheseasons. Used together, [...]
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mromard has written 7 articles so far, you can find them below.
Park some Themes at Google
Google Documents just got more teeth — the introduction of themes makes creating a document online even easier. I’m a big fan of Google Documents, maybe too big a fan as I have several older documents that I need to purge. But, there have been times I wish I had a template – in particular [...]
Dazzles with WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is not just another search engine. In fact, although the founder refers to it as a “computational knowledge engine” I would refer to it as a ‘vanilla geeky sidekick’. Simple. Quick. A bit too much information sometimes and tanks out on easy and romantic stuff. But I like that. It fills a niche and [...]
Get Shorty
Your votes are needed. The US election is done, so is Dancing with the Stars and American Idol is weeks away. So why not spend some time supporting your favorite Twitter friends by nominating them for a Shorty Award. You can nominate as many people as you like in any number of categories (humor, education, [...]
Holiday Cheer
Forget the spice in your cider, use some of the outstanding Holiday clipart images from www.apte.com to spice up your blog entries this month. And fitting for the season, they are free! The clarity and vividness of the colors will make them favorites for any newsletter, year end note to family or cute stamp for [...]
Expanding my PLN with Twitter Kharma
Twitter, a microblogging tool, is perhaps my best tool for connecting to other educators around the world. I find several useful links daily with it. Plus, I’ve received help to questions I’ve posted (ie within five minutes someone I never interacted with, sent me a link to download blank geopolitical maps so I could help [...]
Learning to Change, Changing to Learn
Another gem 21st Century Literacy video which I found through a Twitter buddy – Rich White – from his website. Great dig Rich! The title of this video struck a deep cord hold on me. I found myself asking – what can I do to help change? What got me started in this path was [...]
