Monday, June 1st, 2009

Letter to a Parent

Not directed at anyone in particular…
Dear Parent,
You are, first of all, the type of caring parent every child needs and deserves. You want what is best for your son or daughter’s healthy growth and bright and happy future. You wish to protect them from as much of the harmful, ugly badness that permeates so much [...]

Monday, February 9th, 2009

BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge #6

Today’s challenge is to create a quiz using the fun and powerful site, MyStudiyo.com. This site allows users with free accounts to create interactive, multimedia quizzes. Embed images and video, set time limits, and choose from a good selection of quiz templates. Quizzes are in just two forms, multiple choice and survey-type, but it is [...]

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge #5!

Today’s challenge focuses on a very useful tool called Sketchcast. I wrote about Sketchcast in the previous post. This is a tool that appeared to be lost to us, but it is back now, and I’d encourage you to try it out. When you do, post a link in the comments to your drawing. I [...]

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Sketchcast Back! (Well, Almost)

I wrote a couple of months ago about the disappearance and assumed demise of Sketchcast, the site that offers tools that allow users to capture drawings as they are created, record narration, add text, and share online. It had become one of the favorite apps of several teachers I had shared it with, and I [...]

Monday, January 5th, 2009

The BISD 12 Second Tech Challenge

12seconds is a site that I joined a few months ago as an Alpha user, but haven’t gotten around to really exploring until now. The site functions as basically a video blog, allowing users to record short (12 seconds…you probably guessed that.) videos, which are posted to a user’s homepage, where they can be visited [...]

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Twitter? Are You Serious?

Whew! What a crazy week-and-a-half! I had the opportunity to make 5 presentations in 3 cities, including 3 in one day yesterday. Topics ranged from student achievement vs. 21st century skills to live streaming of school events/instruction to my personal favorite, a requested session on Twitter. This gave me the opportunity to articulate just why [...]