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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 …

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: …

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 …

Next fall, every school district in Florida is required to set up an online school for K-8

November 11, 2008 – 9:23 am | Comments Off

In Florida, virtual school could make classrooms history — OrlandoSentinel.com
A new law that takes effect next fall requires every district in the state to set up an online school for kindergarten through eighth-grade students.

This is …

Why do students need email?

May 15, 2008 – 10:12 am | 2 Comments
Why do students need email?

On the Ohio Technology Coordinator’s listserv this question was posted:
We already had one case of student to teacher generated e-mail that originated on a student computer inside the school. The FIRST question I got as …

Interactive response systems

April 4, 2008 – 2:03 pm | 4 Comments
Interactive response systems

photo credit: swpermanAs we investigate ways to use mobile Internet devices in our classrooms, it hit me that they could be used as an interactive student response system (ISRS). Since current ISRSs are around …

Film enjoyment can be contagious, applying this research to the classroom

December 9, 2007 – 3:38 pm | Comments Off

Reading over at Slashdot.org and the original article at ScienceDaily it appears that film enjoyment can be contagious:
Over the course of the film, movie-watchers influence one another and gradually synchronize their emotional responses. This mutual …

NYT Lesson Plan: Active Reading

February 10, 2006 – 6:51 am | Comments Off

NYT Lesson Plan: Active Reading
In this lesson, students write encyclopedia articles focusing on topics in American history. They practice fact checking, assess their own ability to read actively and skeptically, and write memos that educate …