It’s that time of year again as last week we started working on our student computer image for the 10-11 school year here at ISB. Trying to find the best software for students is always difficult as there are so many things to consider. That’s what makes the Educational Software Wiki a great place to [...]
Picnik.com launches back to school ideas
A friend of mine who now works for Picnik (or should I say Google seeing that Picnik was recently purchased by them), the online photo editing website passed along these little suggestions this week. New for Back to School We just launched some handy tools that make it easy to create photo-personalized blog headers, newsletters, [...]
Using Search Stories to Teach Search Skills
Last year one of the best ads released during the SuperBowl was this simple ad by Google Shortly after the release of this video Google asked you to make your own search stories. Simply go to http://www.youtube.com/searchstories and start creating your story. What a great way to teach students search skills. Give students and start [...]
A Shopper for All Seasons
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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Core Education
Confusing Parents
I’m sure you’ve heard by now the Principal in NJ that is asking parents to ban all Social-Networking sites from students. You can find his full e-mail to parents at the link or watch this interview below: So basically I take two things away from this video: 1. Parents are the problem and need to [...]
Digital Literacy
Fixing a hacked WordPress Site
Now I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a WordPress lover. Maybe not as much as this guy and his tattoo but I like WordPress a lot and it has been fun to grow as a blogger along with the program. I’m already beta testing the 3.0 version and like the added features….especially for [...]
Core Education
Information Broker for Digital Textbooks
As teachers, we are constantly on the look out for new books, electronic texts, media resources, Web sites, etc. that we piece together to build upon what our textbooks do not offer. Our curriculum is far too individualized for our learners to think that one textbook provider can offer enough of a variety of resources [...]
Information Media and Technology Skills
What I learned from Laos
Yawn……stretch…..nothing like a week off relaxing to get the creative juices flowing. Spring Break is now over and we’re in the home stretch here in Bangkok with 7 weeks of school to go before summer vacation starts. Over Spring Break, my wife and I spent four days in beautiful Luang Prabang, Laos (pictures can be [...]
Web Links
Latest Web Marks 04/01/2010
Conference Week | The Thinking Stick tags: no_tag This coming week I’ll start my travels in Singapore where I’ll be brainwashed attending the Apple Distinguished Educators Asia Institute. I was suppose to attend here in Bangkok last year, but thanks to the #yellowshirts shutting down the airport the institute was moved to Singapore and I [...]
Web Links
Latest Web Marks 03/27/2010
Dave’s short course in trigonometry tags: trigonometry, math, mathematics, tutorial – post by jutecht Trigonometry as computational geometry Angle measurement and tables The Pythagorean theorem An explanation of the Pythagorean theorem Similar triangles Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Digital Literacy
Why you need some Techxperts at your school
This term, my colleague Louise Phinney and I have started an after school activity for Grade 4 and 5 students called Techxperts. Here’s how we marketed it to the students: Do you love using computers and other bits of technology? Are you a bit of a Tech Wizard? Do you know how to use programmes [...]
Digital Literacy
Creating Common Craft Videos
Technology Integrationist Donna Ellery uses Common Craft style videos in a range of contexts at Discovery College in Hong Kong. 7th Grade students used the Common Craft genre to demonstrate their understanding of the scientific concepts of sound and amplification. Donna had the students critique examples of Common Craft videos to find the commonalities. Students [...]
PD
Personal Branding – Knowing Who YOU Are
At today’s ADE Session in Singapore we spent the day talking about the importance of personal branding. We are fortunate to have Max Judd here who facilitated the personal branding session. Max is the senior manager of Education Advocacy Programs at Apple and is responsible for the Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) program. He talked about [...]
