You’re back in ninth grade and struggling in math (long been *my* nightmare). You hit up Vimeo and search for the standard you’re trying to master, MM1A2c, and find something. Or, you borrow an iPod from your teacher during after school tutorial and search the movies on it for MM1A2c. Welcome to GPScast. I have a [...]
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Last year, I wrote about a service called Group2Call that I was using to send homework reminders via SMS to my students. It worked great but now that I’m in a public school, it was going to be too costly to continue. After fits and starts, I’ve finally found a solution that works for me: [...]
Since I last wrote here, I’ve moved to a large urban public school district in the metro-Atlanta area. My school, Clarkston High, has a very diverse population, including many refugees. While many details of my teaching day have changed, the biggest impact has been the Promethean board in my classroom. To be sure, classes that [...]
Are you or do you know of anyone using SMS (text) messaging with their classes? I’m interested in using it as a homework reminder. I just signed up with Group2call, which lets me send 50 free messages a day. That’s plenty for me to bug remind my students to do their homework. I will be [...]
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I’m teaching a middle school programming class and want to share the coolest thing that happened this week: my students started a website to share what they’re learning. The whole thing was their idea! On their own, they found Google Sites and figured it would be a good tool to use. We already use Gmail [...]
Google offers a free mailing list management tool called Google Groups. You can make a Google Group for any purpose, sign people up for it, and email an entire list with just one email address. This could be really cool for classes to use! Send out assignments & calendar items Engage the group in critique [...]
It’s pre-planning time! I can tell because of the spike of hits on my blog that include the Google search phrase “lesson plans”. Oh, that and I’ve gone back to school this week. Now, onto the techie goodness … I gave a technology overview to my coworkers this morning. We covered three main topics: Social [...]
I liked this article, the Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students (thanks Lifehacker!). The big players like Google Docs and Spreadsheets or Wikipedia are there, as you might expect. I am interested in checking out the note taking category because I’m curious to know how an online option beats Notepad.
Apple launched iTunes U at the end of May. It’s a dedicated area inside the iTunes store. About 16 colleges and universities are currently publishing content in the U. According to an article in THE Journal On the K-12 side of things, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) and Arizona State University (ASU) are providing [...]
