Archive for November, 2007

Radio Shack’s new campaign, “Do Stuff” caught my eye tonight with a TV spot that combined a remote control truck, digital camera, and video iPod. RadioShack.com even has the project outlined under Caroling 2.0 howto on their website. What I like about this campaign: Cheeky (I think) use of the “2.0″ tag. Clever mashup. Instructions [...]

WordPress app for Facebook

Posted: November 19, 2007 in blogging, socialnetworking

Let’s say you have a blog you want students to read. How do you get them there? Show them RSS readers and encourage them to subscribe? Hope they remember to visit the website regularly? Or, do you put the blog posts in a place where they visit already, say Facebook? I just discovered how to [...]

Finally: Good Advice on Wikipedia

Posted: November 15, 2007 in web2.0

Don’t remember where I first heard of the Gearfire Student Productivity blog I’m thrilled for the referral. One post this week really impressed me: “4 ways to use Wikipedia (hint: never cite it)“. When I hear Wikipedia bias, the less damaging type usually goes something like “high school students shouldn’t cite an encyclopedia in research [...]

A New Kind of Great Books Course

Posted: November 12, 2007 in highschool

Teachers never play favorites, right? We love all our students equally. And all our courses equally, too? Problem is, I’m having far more fun teaching one particular course this semester. It’s a semester-long study of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. A little background: This class is coded as a technology course with the [...]

Wield Some Del.icio.us Mojo

Posted: November 9, 2007 in web2.0

I quite enjoyed “Become a Del.icio.us Power User” over at Web Worker Daily; especially the power tip to use a “review” tag for stuff you want to look at soon. I’d add a power-power tip: use the tag, then subscribe over RSS to your own reminder tag. The review+subscribe combo is a lot like what [...]

Data Collecting and Modeling in Algebra

Posted: November 5, 2007 in math

The Georgia Independent Schools Association (GISA) annual conference happened today in Atlanta. This is my first year attending the conference because this is the first year my employer has been a member. Above: The Lovett School in Atlanta, host of the GISA Annual Conference.  I attended a math session in the morning and presented my [...]