[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[...]
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
November 12th, 2009 - 1:06 pm § in FreeAppoftheDay, TeacherHax
Replace Your Firefox Plugins with Mozilla Ubiquity
[Translate] Image by flod via Flickr Everybody loves Firefox. Even with all the other fast, standards-compliant modern browsers out there (like Chrome, Safari, and Opera– sorry IE!) Firefox stands alone for its rich variety of extensions. If you’re using Firefox, you can be sur[...]
June 7th, 2009 - 8:41 pm § in EdTech, TeacherHax
Offline is the New Online
[Translate] Image via CrunchBase Web 2.0 has beguiled us to forsake our old offline apps and turn to the online cloud for more and more of our data needs. CNET’s Buzz Out Loud podcast proclaimed that “Offline is the New Online” when Google Gears came out in 2008. Our emai[...]
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[...]
May 9th, 2008 - 5:12 pm § in TeacherHax
Turn any assignment into a movie, quickly and easily!
[Translate] [youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=1spqRM40-EA] This is a video we did based off of MWesch’s great work. We started a class discussing how technology impacts our lives and, in one period, turned it into a video that we could share with the wider world. The students wrote their[...]
Have students RECORD key assignments as MP3s so you can listen, not read.
[Translate] As an English teacher, I always felt like I was drowning in a sea of papers. I needed to get the students to do high quality thinking, and the only way I knew how to evaluate that thinking was through their writing. Last semester, I got smart and had them turn in their final art [...[...]
May 8th, 2008 - 5:29 am § in EdTech, TeacherHax
Guilt-Free Sick Days: Post your slideshow on your web page!
[Translate] We’ve all been there: you wake up in the morning and realize “there’s no WAY I can go in to school today!” So you call the substitute and hope that your students don’t have a totally unproductive day without you. [...]
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