Quizlet
Quizlet is a pretty interesting thing. The first interesting thing about it is that it was programmed by a 15 year old (now 17) Andrew Sutherland. Now I’m not saying that 15 year olds can’t do most anything people over, … Continue reading →
Quizlet is a pretty interesting thing. The first interesting thing about it is that it was programmed by a 15 year old (now 17) Andrew Sutherland. Now I’m not saying that 15 year olds can’t do most anything people over, … Continue reading →
During the last two trimesters at Kimball Union Academy history teacher Lyn Lord has been using Firaxis Civilization III in her World History classes. When I first installed it in the lab I must admit that I could see the … Continue reading →
I’ve been using Remember the Milk for about a week now and I like it quite a bit. Remember the Milk is an online To Do list. Now you you might think (as I did) that an online list makes … Continue reading →
I wanted to see how exporting posts from this blog to another blog would go so I exported to my test blog on my own server. The posts exported fine but not the pages or blogroll. I downloaded this theme, … Continue reading →
Because I work in IT, am not an educator, my focus is necessarily going to be a little different. I need to learn how to install and configure these technologies, not just use them.To that end I downloaded and installed … Continue reading →
I spent last weekend in Boston with a friend and taking advantage of the high-speed connection down there I was showing him Google Earth. I think Google Earth is one of the cooler things out there but I haven’t used … Continue reading →
Amy Standon has an interesting article over at Edutopia on using wikis in an educational setting. Read A Glorified Whiteboard
Continue reading →I hadn’t really thought of RSS as a tool for education but it can be. If a student is doing research on a subject that’s in the news it can be useful. And certainly it’s useful for me. During the … Continue reading →
I spent some time this morning over at Wikispaces. I have, as I said, been very intrigued by the idea of collaborative learning or collaborative space that the wiki offers. I didn’t like pbwiki much, for one thing it offers … Continue reading →
In the class discussions and documents I’ve seen no mention of another online tool that I think is can be even more valuable than a wiki and certainly much more valuable than a blog for discussion. That tool is the … Continue reading →