Positive words can make positive change, but sometimes it’s hard to find the right words. Yesterday, TED launched a new page, TED Quotes, on their website dedicated to quotes taken from some of the 1,100 plus talks they host on the site. What I like about the page is that these are the best quotes [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web 2.0’
New TED page: TED Quotes
Posted in Online Tools, Random Stuff, tagged eduation, TED, web 2.0 on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Purist or successfully diverse?
Posted in Random Stuff, Why Tech?, tagged education, mac, pc, web 2.0 on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One of my favorite ways to spend a day outside of school is to go fly fishing. There is something deeply satisfying about tricking a fish into biting a fly that I tied myself. It’s fun and relaxing as well as a good challenge. However, as much as I like to fly fish, I also [...]
Unpredictable
Posted in Random Stuff, Why Tech?, tagged ed tech, education, technology, web 2.0 on February 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Tonight, I was working on some fake Facebook resources and clicked on My Fake Wall, a resource that I have used in the past. The link took me to a page that said the site was offline. There was no indication of when it would be up and running again. There is a chance that [...]
The best source for video equipment in the classroom
Posted in Cell Phones, Movie/Video, tagged ed tech, education, web 2.0 on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Been thinking of doing a video project, but not sure where to get cameras for the students to use? I’d be willing to bet that you already have a bunch of cameras in the classroom. They are in the pockets of most students that walk through the doors of the school. More and more students [...]
Use the projector in your classroom
Posted in Random Stuff, Why Tech?, tagged ed tech, education, web 2.0 on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Projectors are becoming the norm in classrooms. Costing anywhere from $500-$1000 apiece, they are a pricy investment in the classroom. Occasionally, a teacher will fire it up to show a movie or maybe to have students copy notes but from what I have seen, many of them sit dormant in classrooms. Now don’t get me [...]
Teaching with technology
Posted in Why Tech?, tagged education, Educational technology, web 2.0 on February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Notice, the title says, “teaching with technology,” not “teaching technology.” This is an important distinction to make when planning a lesson. There are times when the teacher is going to have to teach the technology, but face it. The majority of the students in any given class probably have a better handle on the technology [...]
Never enough technology
Posted in Why Tech?, tagged classroom 2.0, education, technology, web 2.0 on January 31, 2012 | 2 Comments »
My dream classroom would include the following: Class set of laptops (preferably Mac Book Pro’s) Class set of iPod Touches complete with a charging station A Smart Board (even if they aren’t quite as nifty as they seem) Document Camera Clickers (probably SMART since I have the board) Surround sound speaker system (Bose would be [...]
Student make up work for video projects
Posted in Online Tools, tagged animation, education, Educational technology, web 2.0 on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Here is the dilemma: the students in your class work for a week creating a video, and as luck would have it, one or two students miss the entire week due to illness. Not only do these student miss out on all of the collaboration that takes place in the project, they also do not [...]
How to start a technology project in the classroom
Posted in Why Tech?, tagged edtech, Educational technology, web 2.0 on January 17, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I know a lot of teachers who want to use technology in their own classroom. Many of them know that it will benefit the students. They are sure that the students will have fun and learn at the same time. They even know that this is the future of education, but that is as far [...]
