If you are an Alabama administrator and want to gain a Professional Learning Unit (PLU) in technology, read on. I have just finished a five-part webinar series with CLAS which focuses on the nut & bolts uses of technology which...
Plagiarism has been the scourge of English teachers for generations. The advent of the Internet only made the problem of plagiarism worse. Face it, back in the days when term papers were produced on a typewriter, the plagiarizer had to...
iGoogle has been my homepage for six years. Every time my browser opens, I see my dashboard of tools. It’s always the same from device to device. I can log into it from any computer. If I make a change,...
As promised, this post is a follow-up to today’s workshop. The items I want to cover here are very much the same as those in a post following a workshop for the Alabama National Board Certified Teachers Network on January...
Computers began to appear in classrooms almost 30 years ago. How best to integrate them into the learning process remains a popular topic. This guest post, written by Lindsey Wright, offers practical advice. While the use of technology has been...
Some questions are easy:Is it important that kids write well?Do we want them to write better than they do?Would we like to use some of the technology available to help with the process? Some questions are hard:How? A new book...
I couldn’t help laughing when a friend shared this site with me. After laughing, however, I added it to my bookmarks, and for a very good reason. When it comes to technology, holes in the knowledge base of a vast...
Thanks to everyone who came to one of my sessions today at AETC. As promised, all you had to do was sit back and listen. All of the notes you could have taken are in the handouts. To get to...
Are you attending the Alabama Educational Technology Conference? Join me for these three sessions: Get Organized With Your BlackBerry (June 16, 8:00, East Hall Room N)Have a BlackBerry, but just use it to make phone calls, get e-mail, and take...
“The Networked Student” was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler’s high school students. The Networked Student concept map was inspired by...