This has been a challenging week. The main point has been vandalism of two our our five iBook laptops. It has caused our teachers to simply turn them off and lock up what we have left and just tell the students no laptops until the person that damaged the laptops is identified.
Sure, that punishes the [...]
With temperatures in the lower 70’s today and upper 60’s yesterday, fruit flies have invaded the sweet potato processing plant next door. I have sprayed Black Flag so much that my coffee tastes like bug spray. If I had the money, I would be on a cruise or in the mountains skiing. However, low teacher [...]
I have never been a fan of Yahoo! Mail. But, all my students have Yahoo! email accounts. It is not blocked by our school district’s content filter, so I have been tinkering around on it today. The best feature about it of me is the address book. As a habitual user of .MAC and its [...]
Well, it almost time for Christmas vacation. I read on Twitter that some schools are having classes through Friday of this week. That is so – Scrooge-like that it made me smile. I could not imagine how few of our students would attend school that close to Christmas. Anyway, I am happy today is the [...]
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Fifth period class was well underway when one of my students asked if I had gotten the text. It was caught off-guard by the question. My first instinct was to say yes. However, day had not been a normal day. Students were mostly in shock. One of their classmates had been missing since November 19th. [...]
Professional development (PD) in our district is now being offered via a paid online service called PD360. I have not tried it, but our administrators had a need to offer more PD and again technology offered a solution. Is it going to make a difference? IMHO, it will impact many teachers and help them keep [...]
This past week, I have been exploring the new and or enhanced features for teaching included in Apple’s latest operating system upgrade- Leopard. In this post, I attempt to hash-out my thoughts on the new features that I am still shaking my head over. My only complaint about Leopard for educators and students is the [...]
I have been using Twitter since this past summer and have gleaned numerous teaching and technology tips from educators online. Sharing links to blog posts and live web casts are better than iCal when it comes to reminding me of online events. So, if you are one of the Twittering Educators listed below or just [...]
Key #1 Large Schools are not safe- but small schools lack resources and personnel to search and seize
Key #2 Student book bags- it is time for them to disappear from schools
Key #3 Teacher visibility- not seating at our desk (maybe that is why two teachers were shot in the resent school shooting on NBC this [...]
