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Most people are wary of the idea of blogging because they think of it as another, separate activity they have to do on top of their other responsibilities. The term “blogger” has become an acceptable job title, like “journalist” or “pundit”. The beauty of blogging, however, is that it’s so easy you...
I recommend that all my students use Firefox as their main web browser. It is faster, more secure, and more extensible than IE, Safari, or Opera. As the school year goes on, I will recommend Firefox plug‐ins that make surfing the web a whole new experience.
Mozilla FirefoxThe premier free, ope...
My big mission this summer is to learn how to adopt David Allen’s Getting Things Done method into my way of handling email. Thunderbird (with the Light...
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This new tool from Google allows you to just enter a keyword and create an embeddable widget for your web page or blog. Any information you want to stream to your viewers– news, photos, blog posts– you can just get some paste code to add it to your pages!
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 responses, rehearsed the choreography a few times, and shot it. We...
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How many times have students tried to get out of writing a paper with the excuse “but I don’t have Microsoft Word!” Now, you can direct them to OpenOffice.org to get a free, legal replacement for M$ Office. It slices, it dices, it can save in .doc format, as well as PD...
