Entries from June 2007

Friday, June 29th, 2007

Short iPhone Line in DC

While attending a conference in Washington, DC, today, I walked past the AT&T store on Connecticut Ave. and snapped with picture. The funniest part was the expressions on the faces of my fellow conference attendees as I tried to explain to them that these people were standing in line to try to purchase a [...]

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Twitterrific Version 2.2

Ok…calling all Twittheads, coming to a conference room real soon- Cmd-B will now open up a list of folks tapping the keys as they Tweet their hearts away.  If you have your laptop out and you have updated to the latest version of Twitterrific, you will notice your friends avatar image will have a white [...]

Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Why Schools Make You Tuck In Your Shirt!

I know this video is over a year old, but it is still one of my favorites. I went by my school today and two new students were waiting to enroll for our coming new school year. Looking at the attire of those two students made me shiver. It was 92 degrees [...]

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Classroom Management: 101

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Define Class Rules (a.k.a. Classroom Procedures)
The discipline committee must decide what sort of rules will be enforced school wide. Try to limit these rules to about four or five. I think that it’s easy to enforce a handful of rules that everyone knows and can even spout [...]

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Model Schools Conference Preparations

Our school district’s delegation flies out of ILM on the day Apple and AT&T launch- June 29th.  It would be  fun to watch the lines or lack of lines at the local AT&T /Cingular Store, but I would rather be on my way to the conference.  It has been ten years since I have [...]

Friday, June 1st, 2007

Wikimapis and podcasting

This looks like something teachers could use. It is free. This example shows our campus. I can see my students could use this to illustrate podcast notes as they research coastal resources, landforms, changes of earth’s surface, freshwater, and much more. Students could use this mapping tool to help them learn about [...]