Useful Sites, How-Tos, Student Samples
I just finished teaching EDU 601. It’s a graduate ed. tech class I teach at Creighton University and it’s consumed the majority of my non-family time the last month. This is the second summer I’ve taught the course and I find it to be a wonderful learning experience for myself and very rewarding to work [...]
Upon returning from my “un-plugged” vacation this past week, I came across several posts in my reader about Wikispaces. Prior to this summer, I’d used wikispaces for several wikis and found it to be very useful and relatively easy to use. This summer, I decided to use PB Works as the main platform [...]
I would say that my teaching career began in 2001-2002 during my senior year of college. Even though I wasn’t an education major in undergrad, I had the opportunity to sub in a local Catholic high school and volunteered at an elementary school supported by the university. One of the teachers at the [...]
If you want to get techno-cool in the classroom here are my top suggestions. These are the tools that I use most (and how I use them) to keep students engaged and active in the learning process.
1. Google Docs - If your school has the education edition then you’ve got it made. [...]
Life has been busy at school. Once things get settled a little, I’ll be blogging about some things I’ve been using in the classroom this year. Here’s what you can look forward to:
1) My interactive whiteboard challenge - Do it all, without the iboard
2) Tips and tricks to integrating tech in the [...]
I’m currently taking an online class on computer programming. We’re working with Alice (the program) and everyone in the class was stuck on a particular problem. Unfortunately, the course interface did not give us much opportunity to collaborate beyond a message board. To remedy this I invited the class to join me [...]
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I’ve written a lot in the past about online website design tools, but haven’t found any that could do all the things I wanted. That was until I used Synthasite. After hearing about it on Larry Ferlazzo’s blog, I gave it a whirl and before long I’d created a whole site with it. [...]
This is an excerpt from a post on classroom 2.0 for a question about smartboards vs. promethean boards. It still bothers me that significant amounts of money are spent on certain “educational” tools when incredibly less expensive alternatives are available.
Recently, I decided I better give [Interactive Whiteboards] a full test ride, but my [...]
I love Google Docs. It has a lot of uses and it’s free. About 2 months ago, I got my school hooked up with Google Docs Education and it has been a great addition. Students have access to a full office suite that automatically saves everything online, email, calendars, and the [...]