Category Archives: tutorial

More Free Open Source Goodness: Celtx Media Pre-Production Suite

June 26, 2008 – 11:24 am

Life is physically and mentally too cramped for me to write the posts I’ve been planning about Pink’s Whole New Mind and Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody.  I’m tutoring three days a week, finishing up my change of visa status (I never thought I’d need a Green Card, but there it is), and moving into our […]

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Three Uses of Diigo in the History and Language Arts Classroom

March 31, 2008 – 9:13 pm

I’ve been a Diigo user for two years come July. Seems like everybody and their grannies have adopted it in a Twitter-induced stampede over the last two days (I think Will had something to do with it).
As I said on Twitter, the flood of emails requesting “friendship” on Diigo sort of shocked me (I […]

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Beyond RSS: Using Alltop.com to Teach Writing

March 29, 2008 – 3:13 pm

This is the excellent foppery of the world.
–Edmund, in Shakespeare’s King Lear
Remember last summer those Korean Christian missionaries who came up with the bright idea of spreading their gospel in, of all places, Afghanistan? Sure you do. It was all over the news for a couple weeks. They were taken hostage by the […]

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Using Flock and Split Screen to Give Feedback

March 23, 2008 – 5:40 pm

Just a quickie to share a new discovery: I just switched to Flock from Firefox - which I loved, but has been way too buggy lately - and I find it feels just like Firefox, but faster and more stable. Better still, I found a new addon called Split Browser (see a monster list […]

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Open Lesson to Students Everywhere: This is Real Learning, Quick-in, Quick-out

February 29, 2008 – 3:53 am

Thanks to Jeff Utecht and the students in my activity block for this little demonstration of what real learning can look like now. Jeff’s in Shanghai. I’m in Seoul. We’re both in Twitter and Skype, though, so distance doesn’t matter.  This kind of international travel is free. And no airport waiting.
Read the tweets, then […]

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