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Your assignment: 20 minutes on your DS before school
Scottish authorities [have begun other trials of ‘More Brain Training with Dr Kawashima’ on the Nintendo DS][] in 16 schools: A 20-minute burst of the ‘brain training’ exercises on Nintendo’s DS console at the start of the day apparently improves performance in maths tests by as much as 10 per cent, according to a Scottish…
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USPTO overturns Blackboard’s 44 patent claims
[][] [][] photo credit: Erin NealeyDesire2Learn is reporting that the United States Patent & Trademark Office has overturned all 44 of Blackboard’s patent claims: On March 25, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued its Non-Final Action on the re-examination of the Blackboard Patent. We are studying the document, found here, but in short, the…
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Paradox of choice
[][] ![Creative Commons License][] credit: javYliz In the technology world it seems we’re continually confronted with new products, services, software, hardware, etc. And for those of us who have a tough time focusing on one thing at a time, this dizzying array of choices can easily distract us or keep us from finishing previous tasks.…
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Linux Terminal Lab (and test post )
[![][]][] [Linux Terminal Lab (and test post )][] Originally uploaded by [mr.rcollins][] This is an eight station computer setup in one of our middle school classrooms. Five of the machines are Linux terminals, booting over the network. (* I’m also trying a test post of a picture sent from my phone to Flickr. *) []:…
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Inventory control
[][]Keeping track of inventory can be a difficult, and it seems like every four months someone is asking about what product to get to use for inventory control. I created a simple database in Filemaker Pro to keep track of our inventory. Why Filemaker Pro? We already had it. I didn’t need anything that fancy.…
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Yes, I will lead!
I was thinking about my blog post from last week, contemplating on how I should be more positive. People using technology in schools are already facing enough of an uphill battle without me picking on them. 🙂 Stealing Alvin’s Efficiency Tips idea, I want to post little tips, tricks, ideas to help the technology support…
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Twitter tracking
I’ve been playing around with Twitter for a little while (and if you’re really bored, you can follow me). A very cool feature is tracking. It works when you link your Twitter account with your instant messenger of choice. I’m currently tracking the following terms: education ed tech ipod touch educational technology I then see…
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Where is the importance of tech education for educators?
Will Richardson sums it up so eloquently for me: …which is how in god’s name can we talk seriously about 21st Century skills for kids if we’re not talking 21st Century skills for educators first? The more I listened, the less I heard in terms of how we make the teaching profession as a whole…
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Low tech and high tech communication – eTech Ohio 2008
[![The audience #4][]][]At the eTech Ohio Technology Conference this past February I presented on different ways a person can communicate. Some ways were very low tech (writing a letter, using the phone), and some ways very high tech (using Grand Central to control incoming calls, social networking with del.icio.us or Twitter). I’ve finally gotten around…