I good friend of mine and classmate from college is considering entering the teaching profession as a second career after he retires from the Air Force in a couple years. He asked me for my recommendations of books to read about teaching and being a teacher, and I thought I’d share my list here so
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I received an email today from an Oklahoma K-12 librarian and friend, who was sharing my son’s VoiceThread book review of “Eragon” by Christopher Paolini this week at school. She was concerned because some of the student commenters drew on the images (virtually of course) using the VoiceThread annotation options. This VoiceThread-based book review is
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Following the lead of Lucy Gray, I’ve created and shared a “Favorite Education Apps” curated list on Appolicious. These are my “top 10 education applications” for the iPod Touch and iPhone, for students in intermediate / secondary grades. All of the above apps DO work with the iPod Touch, with the exception of Pano which
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Here in the creative state of Oklahoma, many educational leaders are eagerly awaiting the award announcements for our state ARRA / TitleIID 1:1 learning grants: The 1:1 Digital Classroom Project. The original award date for these grants, which were due on January 15, 2010, was February 18, 2010. That date was apparently wrong, as February
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I started the process of doing a “clean installation” of my laptop computer’s operating system and all the software programs I run this weekend. This can be a lengthy and painful process, but I’ve found it can be a LITTLE better by keeping a linked list of the apps I use. This time around I’m
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Teaching and facilitating my “Technology 4 Teachers” class this semester at the University of Central Oklahoma has led to a lot of personal learning for me. One thing it’s driven home is that we should NOT make assumptions about the “digital literacy” or technology skills / knowledge people already possess, whether those people are younger
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