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Teacher covers copy costs with ads
Ads on tests add up for teacher - USATODAY.com
“Tough times call for tough actions,” he says. So he started selling ads on his test papers: $10 for a quiz, $20 for a chapter test, $30 for a semester final.
Interesting way to deal with cost cutting, but I don’t know the sustainability of the model. Right [...]
HIW (How I Work): The Apple MacBook
I am asked quite often how I can keep up with everything in regards to educational technology, software, and hardware. After some reflection, I realized that it would make a good series of articles, so I’m going to write up How I Work.
First up is probably the most important component of my technology arsenal, my [...]
New page: About Me
I’ve create an About Me page that gives some background information on how I got to where I am today.
Portable blogging
I’m testing out a mobile blogging client for my Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone, MoBlog. It appears to work ok, including allowing me to insert an image from my phone. I’ll post a longer review once I’ve had more time to play with it.
Next fall, every school district in Florida is required to set up an online school for K-8
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 fascinating to me, and I’m surprised that this didn’t get more news coverage when the legislation was being passed in [...]
Codeweavers Crossover Pro and Games for Mac and Linux Free today only!
Codeweavers is offering two of their products for Mac and Linux free today only. I’ve only played around with Crossover when it was still in Beta, but this is some exciting news. I’m hoping it can run VMWare’s console application so I don’t have to start up VMware Fusion on my MacBook.
Posting from my ipod
Showing off the Wordpress app for the iPod.
Firefox 3.0 to be released at 10 PDT (1:00pm for those on the east coast)
Go and download it! (At the proper time, of course. )
Test post from TypePad's Blogit
This is a test, posting from my iPod Touch.
Would a rose by any other name smell just as sweet?
According to a recent study, names really do make a difference:
Parents are being warned to think long and hard when choosing names for their babies as research has discovered that girls who are given very feminine names, such as Anna, Emma or Elizabeth, are less likely to study maths or physics after the age of [...]