I had first read about Walter Stroup in Texas a couple of years ago, but I hadn’t done much followup. While I was researching for something else, I came across an article from September that has more information. Basically, Stroup’s researched the validity of the STAAR test from Pearson: Using UT’s computing power, Stroup investigated….
There are a couple of different ways to schedule equipment when you’re a Google Apps for Education school. One is to have the GAFE administrator create Google Calendar Resources that can then be scheduled with Google Calendar. This method works really well, but its biggest issue is that staff have to schedule by time, not…
The Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian museums has released a complete digital copy of their collections. The Open F|S initiative is free to use for non-commercial purposes.
For all the advantages that the Internet has brought, communication can still be problematic. Email is still the king of the hill with Internet using American Workers, but it really isn’t a very good medium for conversations by being limited to who can see and take part. Twitter chats are big with educators, but are…
For teachers with Google Apps for Education, an inbox full of sharing notifications and other emails from students can sometimes be overwhelming. Fortunately, there is a way to filter your incoming email and take back your inbox. One is automatic for your students, the second is not. First, we need to create an email filter…
I was commenting on a Google Doc tonight and wanted to put some emphasis on a word, so I put two asterisks on either side, so it looked like this. After hitting Comment, Google applied bold formatting to everything inside the outermost asterisks, so it looked like this in the comment: So to add bold to…
I like toys. Especially tech toys. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that, as long I keep the toys in check. Not everything needs a technological solution, and even when it does, there are always multiple ways of solving the problem. What is really interesting is seeing what others do with technology. A…
Here are my presentations for the Create Conference: Teach Like a Hacker Your Inbox is not an Organizational Tool
Here are my presentations from the Crestview Beyond the Classroom Technology Summit: Teach Like a Hacker Session 1 Teach Like a Hacker Session 2 Web 2.0 tools Digital Publishing Session 1 Digital Publishing Seasion 2 Google Addons Session 1 Google Addons Session 2
Sometimes when you are researching for a project, you’ll come across web resources that you would like to save. Now, you can bookmark it, or use a bookmarking service, but there is still a chance that when you go back to the site it may be gone (and archive.org) may not have a copy. To…