A Teacher’s Thoughts

I learned about Favikon at the SimpleBits blog. This was a fun little tool. Nothing really educational, but I made and uploaded three favicons in no time.

The very favicon located in your address bar right now.

I used this one for my class web site, Investigate, Collaborate, Learn

I created this one for the […]

I caught this New York Times article about Nick Haley, an 18 year old student in England whose YouTube video has become a produced and featured commercial for Apple. All the ingredients are there for a pro-sumer world story. A few of the lines that resonate most strongly with me as an educator […]

I’ve been filtered and by my own district. I received this email from a teacher at our new high school
I thought you’d enjoy the fact that your blog is blocked (a teachers thoughts) because it contains banned words.

This followed a discussion about “Linkin’ (B)Logs: A New Literacy of Hyperlinks” by Tiffany J Hunt and […]

As I read through the edublogger world I am often left to wonder if the world my students live in is different than the world described by many of the edubloggers. Not because I think those describing totally wired students are wrong, but rather because we tend to create situations in our lives where […]

Job Description-Install, configure, maintain, troubleshoot building-wide network including, wireless networking. Comfortable in Windows and Linux environments. Responsible for set up, maintenance, and updating user machines (100+). Work directly with teachers and students to troubleshoot issues arising during the day. Assist teachers to plan technology integration into classroom teaching….the list goes on. […]