I’m a Facebook user AND a teacher. Here’s how I locked down my profile so that I can have a social life and not worry that the world is watching over my shoulder. A word of warning that should already be obvious: even with the privacy guards in place, I still wouldn’t recommend posting drunken [...]
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My user profile didn’t load on my work computer today. “No big deal,” I think, “I’ve been working 100% online for quite some time.” Without my regular workspace, I worked so slowly! Lemme share with you how my day has gone: Let’s check Gmail. Please log in. I wanted to add to the Whole New [...]
In his post “The first thing to do this year“, Seth Godin suggests Googling yourself: If you’re a salesperson, your prospects already do. If you’re looking for a job, your prospective employers already do. If you’ve got a job, your co-workers already do. I’d add, “If you’re a teacher, your students already do.” (An interesting [...]
TagMindr is a really cool service: remind yourself on a specific day from any del.icio.us bookmark. Here’s how to do it: Visit TagMindr to subscribe to your personalized del.icio.us reminder feed. Use del.icio.us as usual, adding 2 special tags: “tagmindr” and “remind:YYYY-MM-DD”. Read your own del.icio.us reminder feed in your favorite newsreader. Updates will show [...]
Learning Curve is the school-focused home of Great Britain’s National Archives. I explored Crime and Punishment, pictured here. See the green, blue, and red tiles? Behind each is a question about Crime, Prevention, or Punishment for a given time period. Click on one and you’re taken to a details page that presents multiple case studies. [...]
The Google Blog announced last week that their Gmail collaborative video is complete. Here’s the official page for Gmail: A Behind the Scenes Video. My favorite part is the Google Map where they tagged the location of each submitter. Can you believe that over 1100 videos from 65 countries were submitted between July 24 and [...]
Thanks to 43 Folders for the link to this one: An Interview with Ze Frank. For a year, starting in March 2006, Ze Frank produced a daily video called The Show. I found episodes at times thought provoking or enlightening but always funny. Several episodes merited my showing them to high school students (see the [...]
This montage of AT&T commercials from 1993 uses the catchphrase “You Will” for all sorts of technologies. You’ll even recognize many of them, even though the ads predated the public World Wide Web by several months. Thanks to Andrew Sullivan for the pointer.
On the EDTECH mailing list, I recently offered the following advice to someone asking for a free hosting service for teachers: Any chance wikispaces or any of the free blogging sites would work? Unless the point is learning HTML, I find that either of these free options are excellent choices. They let the site builder [...]
Flickr has a new feature: Camera Finder. Being popular (I own the Canon Rebel XT) never felt so good. How’s it work? When a digital photo is taken, the camera includes a bunch of info about the picture in what is known as Exif data, which is actually a part of the image file. Exif [...]
