Category Archives: Blogging
Did You Know? A Screenshot is Worth a Thousand Words
There are lots of situations where a screenshot of your computer can communicate much more than words. From giving students detailed directions to helping your tech support people (ahem) solve issues you’re experiencing, screenshots can make it easier for people … Continue reading
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Tagged Annotation, digital storytelling, Google Body, Graphics, Microsoft Windows, Screenshot, Skitch, Snagit, visual communication, Window
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Make a "Hard to Guess but Easy to Remember" Password for Greater Cloud Security
In my last post, I recommended using a password manager like LastPass to help you create strong, unique passwords for all of the different sites you use. If you don’t like the idea of storing passwords in the cloud, the next … Continue reading
Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part II: Showing What You Know
In Cultivate Your Personal Learning Network Part I, you learned to find and organize information that will teach you, challenge your ideas, and help you stay on top of interesting new developments in your areas of interest. The second part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Diigo, education, Electronic portfolio, eportfolio, facebook, Google Reader, Learning, LinkedIn, Personal Learning Network, teaching
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Cultivate your Personal Learning Network
This post discusses how to build your own Personal (or Professional) Learning Network. Instead of starting by telling you which tools to use, I want to talk about why you would do this in the first place…. This … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Clients, edtech, education, google, Google Reader, igoogle, lifehacks, New York Times, Online Communities, Personal Learning Network, Personal Learning Networks, Professional development, rss, Social media, social networking, teacher, technology, twitter, web 2.0, wordpress, WWW
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Reflecting on Reflection in Ed.
Image by lrargerich via Flickr In Jez’ e-Rambler blog, he meditates on the importance of reflection in education. Researchers have long known that reflection is an excellent way to stimulate critical thinking. By comparing new learnings with what you already … Continue reading
"Idea Catching": Tools to Unite your "Inspiration" Mind and your "Perspiration" Mind
Image by Tiago Daniel via Flickr “Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration!“ -Thomas Alva Edison “I discovered the meaning of life but I forgot to write it down.“ -Hugh Gallagher You know those times when you are struck with … Continue reading
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Tagged Arts, google, Idea, Merlin Mann, Mobile phone, Online Communities, Posterous, Social network, social networking, Tumblr, twitter, web 2.0
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Beast Bloggers Content Plan
Image by solbronumberone via Flickr This is a presentation I made to help my Beast Bloggers’ Support Group create a Content Plan for their blogs. I wanted them to take a broad view of their objectives and strengths as they … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, Blogging, east bay, FAQs Help and Tutorials, oakland, teacher, teaching, Ted Curran, writers, writing
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Finding copyright-friendly Images: A blogger's guide
Image via Wikipedia Flickr.com, Yahoo.com, and Google (and now Bing.com) can be great places to find images of just about anything under the sun. Unfortunately, many of the images you find are the intellectual property of someone else– so you … Continue reading
Turn student blogs into an online class community
Image by eyesplash Mikul via Flickr I have been interested in using blogging software to create online learning communities for a while now. This last year, I had students start Blogger.com, Tumblr.com, and Posterous.com blogs, then subscribed to all of … Continue reading
