Archives for posts tagged ‘edtech’

On Using Technology Without Understanding It

This editorial from our high school student newspaper is a must-read for its criticism of the school-wide technology integration initiative. It’s a must-read for other reasons too — and other readers — but read it first, and we’ll get to that very different party afterward. The first thing I did when I read this was [...]

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Lend Patrick Your Voice(Thread)

Head on over to Patrick Higgins‘ Voicethread for his staff development workshop to both explore one very nifty educational tool and to have fun helping Patrick at the same time! (Yes, the W.C. Fields icon is mine.)

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Late Night Last Minute Workshop Touches: a Prof Dev Wiki Share

(click for larger image) I have to wake up in five hours to run this conference tomorrow, so I’ll probably be worthless. But the opening session – an hour-and-a-half warmer – will consist largely of this competition, in four-person faculty teams led by one captain each, to race through this wiki page and be first [...]

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Screencast Quickie: Using Firefox Addon "MeasureIt" to Size a Twitter Group Badge for Our Professional Development Ning

That has to be the geekiest title I’ve ever written. I promise it’s English. Anyway: Just a little tutorial share about one of the million reasons I love Firefox web-browser (and curse at my students lovingly when they open things in Internet Explorer, or even Safari). I’m talking about Firefox Addons. This 4 minute tutorial [...]

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Getting Graham to Grok Erin’s CyberPunk Lexicography: A Widget Worth 1,000 Words (Answers FF Addon)

I couldn’t resist grabbing this screenshot of the Answers Firefox add-on defining the word “grok” in this context: beneath OED lexicographer and “Dictionary Evangelist” Erin McKean’s TED talk on 21st C. lexicography, and above Graham, who rightly asked in one of two funny comments what the hell I was trying to say in one of [...]

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More Mixology on the Shakespeare Mashup

Awake and refreshed now. Neurons still firing from a heady mental cocktail blending the Shanghai Learning 2.0 Conference, my RSS subscription to Crooks and Liars (my favorite political blog), the creative potential of iLife for student-people and teacher-people alike and, five minutes ago, a dash of eureka inspired by reader comments to a week-old and [...]

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Learning 2.0 Conference Shanghai Mashup 1.1: Exotic Soundtrack

Bear with me. This is an experiment in Bloglines. BL wouldn’t read the Google Video embed (Google Reader did), so I want to see if it will show this YouTube version (new original GarageBand soundtrack – my second outing as an electronic “composer”).

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Screencast: Using Diigo on Student Scribe Blogs as Test Reveiw "Sheets"

Here’s one more tutorial, 4 minutes, on using Diigo on Scribe blogs as test review sheets, with students as members of a Diigo Group. I just trained my students today in AP Lit, set them up on the class Diigo Group, and “shared” my highlights and annotations of the class scribe posts (it only works [...]

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Screencast: Using Class Scribe Blogs to Create Self-Grading Moodle Quizzes and Tests

Just sharing this tutorial I made for my staff (95% of whom will not watch it, and therefore spend the rest of their lives making and grading quizzes and tests the hard way). It shows one way to use class Scribe Blogs to create test and quiz items on Moodle. Moodle then auto-grades, reports correct [...]

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OMG: Yugma Desktop-Sharing Marries Skype

I’m sure hundreds of other gadget-crazed edubloggers have noted this, but I just discovered it. The title says it all. Now we world citizens can use Yugma (free) to see and control each other’s desktops as we talk it all on Skype. And in the premium version, we can record it. This will be so [...]

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