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Can Insync dethrone Dropbox as a cloud storage service?

January 13, 2012 – 3:22 pm |

A couple of weeks ago I read a Techcrunch article about Insync. It is a service that works almost identically to Dropbox. Their differentiating feature is the fact that they use your Google Docs account …

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The Senior Experience – Student Blogging for School Pride and High School Credit

November 15, 2011 – 8:30 pm | Comments Off

Madison Local School District
Ohio School Public Relations Association
AJ Huff – Coordinator of school community public relations
The Senior Experience
- class
What
- 21st century teaching and learning
- language arts credit
- students apply, 6 students in class
- blog …

Flipping the classroom with laptops

November 15, 2011 – 8:27 pm | Comments Off

Pandora Gilboa Local Schools
R. Todd Schmutz – Superintendent
Dr. Gene Lloyrd – Director of Technology
As part of the project the student get to keep the machine when they graduate from school.
The netbooks weren’t powerful enough, so …

eDays, not calamity days

November 15, 2011 – 3:20 pm | Comments Off

MY NOTES FROM EDAYS, NOT CALAMITY DAYS PRESENTATION AT THE OSBA 2011 CAPITAL CONFERENCE. MY EDITORIALS ARE IN ALL CAPS.
Mississinawa Valley Local school district
- Pilot school for eDays
Replace snow days with eDays?
- ancedotes: …

A Kindle, iPad, and iPod Touch walk into a classroom – #oetc11

February 5, 2011 – 12:18 pm | Comments Off

The slides are available on Google Docs.

21st Century Learning – Return of the Jedi #oetc11

February 5, 2011 – 12:13 pm | Comments Off

The slides are available on Google Docs, and I’ve started to put my links under http://www.delicious.com/mr.rcollins/partvi.
Have you succumbed to the dark side? Do you use technology for good or evil?

Interview with Kent State journalism students at #oetc11

February 5, 2011 – 11:57 am | Comments Off

I was interviewed by Amanda Murrow at the Ohio eTech Technology Conference:

Star Wars for Teaching from David Smeltzer on Vimeo.

Bought my 6 year old daughter an iPhone

June 29, 2010 – 8:05 am | Comments Off

My daughter is an avid reader and writer, so as she is preparing to go into 1st grade, I wanted to give her an outlet to publish online. What I did was set up a …

Top ten skills needed to succeed as a teacher (and technology)

December 15, 2009 – 12:27 pm | One Comment
Top ten skills needed to succeed as a teacher (and technology)

photo credit: davidsilver
This article started out as the top ten skills needed to use technology effectively, but as I wrote the list, I realized that technology shouldn’t be separated out. As we proclaim that …

Setup a Facebook Page instead of using your personal FB account

December 6, 2009 – 8:05 pm | 3 Comments

One common question I see asked all the time is whether or not teachers should friend students on Facebook. Although you can set your privacy settings on Facebook to hide certain aspects of your life …

Language arts teachers, take note, experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time

May 7, 2009 – 12:24 pm | Comments Off
Language arts teachers, take note, experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in real time

Dracula
Experience Bram Stoker’s Dracula in a new way — in real time. Dracula is an epistolary novel (a novel written as a series of letters or diary entries,) and this blog will publish each diary …