June 2011
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Maru by Andy Oakley — Simple Desktops →
Really smart designs here for all your desktop wallpaper needs.
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Stop the Tech Snobbery →
“If we want to ever get technophobes comfortable with technology, those of us who love the stuff have got to stop being tech snobs.”
Great reminders in this post of the need for treating our colleagues like the professionals they are no matter where they are in their own learning. Conversation going on in the comments on the post is excellent reading as well.
via edtechsandyk
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revolutionizeed asked: I'd love to hear more about how you use your SMART board in the classroom!
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Massive botnet 'indestructible,' say researchers →
A new and improved botnet that has infected more than four million PCs is “practically indestructible,” security researchers say.
“TDL-4,” the name for both the bot Trojan that infects machines and the ensuing collection of compromised computers, is “the most sophisticated threat today,” said Kaspersky Labs researcher Sergey Golovanov in a detailed analysis Monday.
“[TDL-4] is practically...
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Can you really use Twitter in your Classroom? →
A helpful list of ways to integrate Twitter into the classroom. My favorite is number 10!
10. Conduct a twitter debate Now this is a favourite of mine. I love the fact that the students have to be very clear about what they want to say before they start to tap away. With only 140 characters at a time the arguments necessarily need to be lean. This makes for a more lively debate. I also...
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Thank you tumblr developers for a great iPhone app...
Elegant, fast, features that were needed!
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Domain series: Why do I need my own domain?
Hate moving your blog around? If you’re like me, you’ve maybe moved your blog content once or twice. I like to stick with a good platform once I find it. Tumblr, despite the frustrations, outages, and features not working, works for me. But when I switched from blogger I had to retrain people to find me. Again.
Well, I finally got off my duff, inspired by this BoingBoing article....
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For Va.’s proposed teacher merit-pay program, few... →
Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) announced in April that the state would allocate $3 million for teacher bonuses in “hard-to-staff” schools as a way to recruit and retain top instructors in challenging classrooms. The one-year program is due to begin in the coming academic year.
Virginia’s ambitious program to compensate teachers based on performance has encountered its first hurdle: Only 6...
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Watch“Transforming Information Literacy for Today’s Students: Libraries as Sponsors of Transliteracy”
Here are two resource pages to support this 90 minute session:
Media 21
Inviting Student Participation in Your Library Program
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“As long as mathematics is taught as if it were remembering rules and learning...”
– Rick Ackerly
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Digital Literacy.gov: Educator Tools →
To provide librarians, teachers, workforce trainers, and others a central location to share digital literacy content and best practices. These trusted groups can, in turn, better reach out to their communities in providing them the skills today’s employers need.
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The Complete Dropbox for Educators →
A collection of eight excellent articles to help any educator get started with the free online storage service, Dropbox.
via world-shaker
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How to Plan Instruction Using the Video Game Model →
As I wrote in my previous blog, A Neurologist Makes the Case for the Video Game Model as a Learning Tool blog and the accompanying video, the most popular computer games take players through increasingly challenging levels as they became more and more skillful. As skill improves, the next challenge stimulates new mastery to just the right extent that the player could reach with practice and...
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China, Special Education, and Time Travel →
This is an open invitation for teachers everywhere, here and in China, to do some “applied time travel”. If you believe in a better tomorrow for children with special needs everywhere, I invite you to be part of this time travel experience. Please, get involved with our China Teacher Exchange program, or reach out to a classroom of children in China, build bridges with China in whatever...
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Using Video Game Soundtracks for Writing...
Have you ever thought of using music to stimulate writing activity in English?
This is a nice little activity to stimulate a little writing in class. I have used it to practice relative clauses but there’s no reason that you can’t just forget a language focus and just get learners to write. I’ve done this activity a few times and I either :
Let them see the titles of the game and ask...
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Is it just me or are queues not working..?
(again)
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Should Students Bring Their Own Technology Devices... →
Does a school have adequate bandwidth capacity and access points for all the potential hundreds or thousands of devices to hit the network? How will the students access the Internet? What regulations guide their use of the Internet and other technology resources? What exactly are the student’s and school’s responsibility for personally owned devices?
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Should Students Bring Their Own Technology Devices... →
Does a school have adequate bandwidth capacity and access points for all the potential hundreds or thousands of devices to hit the network? How will the students access the Internet? What regulations guide their use of the Internet and other technology resources? What exactly are the student’s and school’s responsibility for personally owned devices?
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Should Students Bring Their Own Technology Devices... →
Does a school have adequate bandwidth capacity and access points for all the potential hundreds or thousands of devices to hit the network? How will the students access the Internet? What regulations guide their use of the Internet and other technology resources? What exactly are the student’s and school’s responsibility for personally owned devices?
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Should Students Bring Their Own Technology Devices... →
Does a school have adequate bandwidth capacity and access points for all the potential hundreds or thousands of devices to hit the network? How will the students access the Internet? What regulations guide their use of the Internet and other technology resources? What exactly are the student’s and school’s responsibility for personally owned devices?
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Should Students Bring Their Own Technology Devices... →
Does a school have adequate bandwidth capacity and access points for all the potential hundreds or thousands of devices to hit the network? How will the students access the Internet? What regulations guide their use of the Internet and other technology resources? What exactly are the student’s and school’s responsibility for personally owned devices?
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DailyFlagStatus: Your Daily Flag Status Source →
So you’re driving and wondering why the flag is half-staff today? Choose your state and enter your email to be notified when your state’s government declares flags at half-staff.
via Ms K Gardner
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