Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
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“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
When I have the craving for a turkey sandwich, the last thing I can handle is looking in the refrigerator and not being able to find the mustard, mayonnaise, sandwich meat, and the cheese slices. I am very careful [...]
Cathy Nelson’s Professional Thoughts blog post made me think about using an Apple computer in our school district. In Cathy’s district, they ask Mac users to purchase a service contract out of their own pocket with Apple. It seems school districts must not be able to negotiate service contract with vendors unless [...]
In a rush to prepare for the beginning of school, but had to post this link to a cool resource for teachers this year. I am working on a couple of grant proposals so I have to get back to work. Check out the resources on GoKnow.com.
http://www.goknow.com/
This will cause more parents in our area to want to send their darlings to private and charter schools. Who the heck would want to pluck out 175 Washingtons for a bullet-proof backpack for their most precious little child. Hum, I hate to be so negative, but I would bet that most of [...]
While working on a project at school today, one of my former students dropped by my room. He told me he had started a MySpace page this summer. He went on to say that he was already bored with it. He has ADD, and his attention span is to say it nicely- [...]
While scrolling through the tweets generated today on Twitter, one caught my attention. Glad2be twittered: “Home from day of ‘laying the foundation’ Pre-AP workshop. Labs were fun, we made Barbie bungie jump.” Glad2be also commented that there are some different Barbie bungee labs — this one is similar to the one used in her workshop: [...]
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The question is, will Thursday’s temperatures actually be higher than today’s? We will see. Staying cool, watching STS-118 launch. This shuttle mission will be perfect for students to podcast about. Bud Hunt of http://budtheteacher.typepad.com/ posted several Tweets on Twitter about the launch today. My favorite was “Morgan racing into space [...]
I have been using a third party Twitter client and have not been using Twitter’s web based app. Just a few minutes ago, I got an email notice that I had a direct message via Twitter. I as happy to see the pull down menu on the Twitter.com page. (see image)
I have really enjoyed sharing [...]
Time to start making a list of instructional needs and wants. Put this first item under the wants category. We looked at a competitor product last year.
SMART – AirLiner wireless slate
With the AirLiner slate you can interact wirelessly with your SMART Board interactive whiteboard or Sympodium interactive pen display from 52 feet (16 [...]