[Translate] 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 know, you are[...]
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February 22nd, 2010 - 12:51 pm § in Blogging, EdTech, Featured Posts, TeacherHax, Ted Curran, Web 2.0
Reflecting on Reflection in Ed.
January 23rd, 2010 - 8:23 pm § in Featured Posts, TeacherHax
Lost Your Job? Stay Active!
[Translate] Image by 365bunnies via Flickr Lost your job? Put down that remote and listen here! Burrowing a groove in your couch is not getting you any closer to that dream job you want. Why not use your unemployed hours to build your resume? I recently secured my dream job after three depre[...]
Thunderbird Don’t Die!: The Case for Desktop Email Client Software
[Translate] Image by adria.richards via Flickr As the blogosphere debates the death of the desktop email client, I am anxiously awaiting the stable release of Mozilla Thunderbird 3.0. Like devotees of Apple Mail.app or Microsoft Outlook, I have come to depend on the desktop app for speed, [...]
Podcast an Audiobook to Reach Struggling Readers
[Translate] Image via Wikipedia Even in the upper grades, students are struggling to make the transition from “learning-to-read” to “reading-to-learn”. Give a struggling reader a context-reduced novel written in old, antiquated language and you will realize that stu[...]
Opera Unite: A Web/Chat/FileSharing/etc. server IN YOUR BROWSER!
[Translate] Image by Glztt via Flickr Opera Unite is an amazing service that allows you to run a web server right out of your own browser! What does that mean? It means that you can share photos, music, and files without uploading them to some external service. You can even set up a privat[...]
Why All Teachers should be Bloggers, too.
[Translate] Image by Daniel F. Pigatto via Flickr I have spent my whole teaching career in small, high tech charter schools, and I have seen educational technology grow symbiotically alongside Web 2.0 advances. I have embraced blogs for their power to tackle a variety of classroom teachers[...]
Student Blogging= Easy Grading, Authentic Feedback and Review
[Translate] This semester, I had all of the students in my digital design class start a blog on either Blogger or Tumblr (.com) where they would be posting all of their work for my class. I then had them send me the web address in an email so I could subscribe to it with a blog [...][...]
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