Tag Archives: technology
Teaching By Calendar
Over the past year or so, I’ve become more and more reliant on my website not just as a repository of information for my students, but as integral to our day-to-day operations. I thought I would make a post showing how I use my calendar in our daily lessons–you should be able to click on …
My First Prezi
Remember all those new tricks I’m trying this year? Well, I haven’t made as much progress on that list as I’d like–I’ve implemented the two-blog system, but haven’t been blogging with them myself yet, for example, though I plan to start soon (more tech snafus than I anticipated have slowed me down). But we began …
What I’m Trying This Year
Richard Byrne recently posted a survey asking teachers what new things they were trying this year–a survey that I missed, unfortunately. However, in true “Free Tech 4 Teachers” style, he also made a slideshow of all the answers he got and wrote a blog post about it, where you can view the slideshow of all …
Update: Gatsby Facebook
What post has gotten the most views and comments on my blog and continues to be a traffic-generator over 15 months later? Definitely my post on the Gatsby Facebook project, which is one of the reasons I started posting more about teaching, and also shows the incredible interest teachers have in teaching with technology and …
New Gigs
One of my summer goals was to challenge myself more as a writer, and another goal of mine this year was to renew my commitment to my poetic practice. Today, I think I’ve made some progress on both those goals by taking on some new regular writing challenges. Right now, you can read my first …
Using Rubistar
One of the teaching tools I tried for the first time this year is Rubistar, a website that is part of the 4 Teachers group of websites, developed by The Advanced Learning Technologies project at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (a mouthful, I know). I had mixed success, but I think …
The Meaning of Tinkering
When I first started blogging, lo these many years ago, I used Blogger.com, had the most basic of templates, and composed each blog post on the fly, not giving much thought to revising or crafting. I didn’t know how to post images, had only a basic working knowledge of HTML, and gave little thought to …
Thinking About Twitter
To Twitter, or not to twitter? The most public use of Twitter these days has been microblogging celebrities: Ashton Kutcher and Britney Spears duking it out for the most followers, B- and C-Listers making every banal thought public, all kinds of celebrities saying goodbye to one of their own. But the White House and the …
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