Keeping track
Image via Wikipedia All new vocab goes on the board. I don’t care if everyone in the class understands and recognizes the item except one person; for that one person, it goes on the board (and I’m sure at least one other person is grateful). I very quickly ran out of room on the board, [...]
Class records and filing
Over the years I’ve used several different ways of keeping track of exactly what the students and I did in class, but I have yet to be completely satisfied with any one system. I have used hanging files to keep the loose-leaf handouts and student homework, but what about extra copies of handouts that I [...]
Blogging about blogging – learn from a pro
Darren Rowse is a professional blogger. Here he writes about how he various blogs grew and why. Some useful tips and info, even for me who isn’t and does not (as yet) aspire to be a professional blogger. Darren’s entry is short but sweet. Here are some sample: What you do the day after you [...]
Blogging tips and assessment
Some useful tips on good blogging practice, from Idratherbewriting. Nothing revolutionary or outrageous, just common sense, but it works as a useful reminder. #10 spoke to me: “archive by topic rather than date”, unless yours is a purely personal journal. “Date archives mean little to readers.” Following his own tip of linking abundantly (#8), idratherbewriting [...]
A teacher assesses Elgg, Drupal, et al…
Dan Meyer is checking out Elgg, Drupal, and others. Dan works fast, and thinks fast. He scribbles notes to himself and lets us read them. Watch Dan go. Go, Dan, go!
Tech support
Where would we be without it?YouTube video


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