Posted by Paige on Aug 11, 2009 in
Best Practices,
Technology 
I have been teaching for 11 years, and while I wasn’t a super fantastic teacher out the gate, I can now say I’m a good teacher. I don’t think that is an arrogant statement, it is simply a fact. How do I know I’m good? Sure my students always improve on the state tests, but I know I’m doing something right because my students improve period. They always get better. From September to June I watch as my students become better readers, better writers, better thinkers and yes, better test takers (not… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Aug 7, 2009 in
Technology 
You may have noticed that I have been “dark” this past week. I have been working hard, revamping a couple of important pages on this site: Blogs I Follow and Ed-Tech Links.
Now, instead of feeding them in via Google Reader and Diigo, I am inputting everything myself. I realize this isn’t the ideal solution due to all the labor involved, but the feed situation wasn’t working for me. I didn’t like that all the links were not available here, and more importantly there was no order to them… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 31, 2009 in
Technology 
Yesterday I was chatting with a former student who posted something on Facebook (more about my Facebook experience in upcoming posts!) about Norton Anti-Virus hating her computer. My response was “Norton is a hog, ditch it”. She said she couldn’t because her father paid for the software and therefore she had to use it. The exchange got me thinking about how many people blindly use anti-virus software that bloats their system and costs them, not only in up front costs, but computer downtime (which is money too). The only reason I can… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 29, 2009 in
iPhone 
This post isn’t necessary for educators, however, I hope that you will stick around and read anyway because I am going to highlight a really great iPhone/iPod Touch app that everyone who listens to music should have.
I was reminded today about one of my very favorite iPhone apps, Simplify Media. Simplify Media allows you to stream music from your desktop computer to your iPhone or Touch. Why is this important? Because it means that you don’t have to install all your music on your device. This awesome… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 29, 2009 in
Technology 
After setting up my two websites I went looking for a way to have e-mail accounts using my new domain names. The few sites that I found charge anywhere from $15/year to about $50/year, depending on the amount of storage and other various features you want (that’s is e-mail only BTW). I figured $15/year wasn’t that bad, and was about to do it when I came across Google Apps (standard edition). I cannot tell you how excited I am to share this gold mine of a find… Continue reading
