The winter tablet program winner is Mike Donovan for his proposal to use a tablet during science explorations outside the classroom. His complete proposal is below the fold.
The winter $250 technology grant has been awarded to Lisa Bruzual for her Kindle Fire proposal. Her complete plan is detailed below the fold.
Here’s the first round of tech use stories from around the Academy campus. 6 teachers reported in from 6 different departments.
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.
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 [...]
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
Jim Mazzonna just shared a great visual representation of many educational web tools arranged in a clickable pyramid. It’s definitely worth taking a look at!