I use iGoogle (formerly known as Google personalized home) as a way of seeing all of my important information in one place. I have little widgets for my email, to do list, docs, calendar, RSS reader, and my favorite blog headlines.

You can customize it so that all of the most important information...

Top 10 Tools to Get Blogging Done

Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done. But that’s exactly what it can feel like if it takes you more time to find your...

If you like the idea of clipping but your blog is where you want all your students to visit, you can use Clipmarks’ Clip‐to‐Blog feature, where you can quickly and easily show them the relevant information and comment on it!

This is so meta…

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This year, I talked our charter organization’s IT master into switching all our (5) schools and the main office to Google Apps for your Domain. This means that our schools don’t have to maintain their own email servers anymore.… all of the backend is provided by Google, although we still keep the ou

If you prefer to think out loud, Jott might be your thing. After signing up with Jott, you can call their toll free number and just talk. Jott will transcribe your thoughts and send them back in any number of ways! I like that I can send Jotts to my to Do List (at RemembertheMilk.com), my email, my...

One of the most revolutionary new products that I’ve brought into my school this year is Google Docs. GDocs is an online office suite (a la MS Office) with a word processor, spreadsheets, and presentation software. On their own, they are fine products (although typing a paper on the web still isn’t...

Engrade »My favorite (free) online gradebook

I have messed with lots of gradebook programs, and most just leave me wanting. Most that I’ve tried are sluggish behemoths that prevent me from doing what seems natural and intuitive. I have finally fallen in love with Engrade because it is fast, reli...

This is a paper I wrote for my Master’s in Ed. at National University, Summer 2007. It discusses how the effects of socioeconomic class on students’ language ability are actually part of a much wider spectrum spanning from pre‐literate cultures (where most learning is transmitted through speech) to...