Here’s a great article with some fantastic ideas: An Educational Technology Bill of Rights Targets Censorship in Schools
All windows machines come with MS Paint, and there are lots of free image editing software packages our there like GIMP that are quite strong. That being said, sometimes I want to a more robust image editing environment and I don’t have the time to install GIMP on the machine I am working on. My [...]
For the past several years I have been using a set of notecards to create random groups. I’ve done lots of shuffling and the system has worked well. I know other teachers who use popsicle sticks. A few days before the semester started, I got to thinking that there might be a better way to [...]
How many passwords do you currently manage? How many of them are exactly the same? Here’s a great article on best practices for picking and managing passwords via Digital Trends.
I continually find myself trying to “keep up” with the ever-evolving technology. It seems when I just start to feel comfortable with one form of technology, something new emerges; something better. For someone like me, who continually tries to find ways in which to capture my students’ interest and engage them in activities and lessons [...]
Herein lies my second installment for the blog about my fortune in having access to “new technology”. I have gotten better about remembering my passwords and being able to access the email in which I saved them all. But there are some programs I am still more of a stranger to than others and those [...]
As hard as I try, I can’t seem to always remember to bring my advisory attendance sheet with me to chapel every morning. On the days where I forget the sheet, I will scan my group and memorize who isn’t there. When I get back to my classroom I’ll fill out out the attendance sheet [...]
In the past I have carried students’ notebooks from Newell Hall 25, to the language office, back to NH25, to my car, to my kitchen table, back to my car, back up two flights of stairs and then had students never pick them up, never read the comments I entered, never compare the score they [...]
If you’ve recently found yourself using a Mac computer for the first time, I highly recommend checking out these resources: Mac 101: Get started with the Mac http://www.apple.com/support/mac101/ Switch 101: Moving from Windows Explorer to the Finder http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2512 Switch 101: On Windows, I used to… http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2514
Thanks to Josh for helping me create a new google group for AP French teachers. This is meant to help replace the old College Board listserv, which is being phased out. Here is the link to the new group: http://groups.google.com/group/ap-french-discussion-group Please help me spread the word to other AP French teachers you might know! [...]