Posted in Summer Core, ethics on Jun 20th, 2009 No Comments »
I have been thinking about education, online life, students and teachers, and ethics quite a bit reciently. And I am probably going to go out on a bit of a limb here, and put forth a more radical version of what I think than maybe is true. But I am reacting against what seems to [...]
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration on Jun 18th, 2009 No Comments »
My first try with the coolest presentation tool I have ever seen. I love Prezi, and I can tell the more I use it, the more I will be able to do with it.
http://prezi.com/109393/
Posted in Summer Core, Technology Integration, faculty training on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
As we have worked our way through the first two days of Summercore 2009, I have been thinking about change. In some ways, like Steve B. says in Chapter 8, I thrive on change. But my love of change (the Lexus) is tempered by my love of many older things (those olive trees are great), [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Last year in history 8, Margaret and I did an assignment for the students to articulate the views of the Patriots and the Loylists at specific points in the revolution using photos I took in Colonial Williamsburg and a fun comic making program called Comic Life. But there were two problems. Not everyone had Comic [...]
Posted in History of Technology, Summer Core on Jun 15th, 2009 No Comments »
After reading about ways to link to video, I thought I would share one of the stranger movies from the Computer History Museum’s YouTube channel. This film was made by IBM in 1965. Things have changed.
What I love about the videos on the Computer History Museum YouTube channel is that they are a mix of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
Well, I am not sure if I want to use this with my students, but it might work.
My loyalists and patriots poster is here: http://hpang.glogster.com/loyalistspatriots/
Posted in Summer Core on Jun 13th, 2009 No Comments »
Back we go into a wonderful week of technology in the classroom. But my preparation is starting with a little hardware learning. I am using a netbook, an HP Mini to be specific. So far I am really happy with it, although I am not so imporessed with the battery life. I expected to [...]
