Posted by Paige on Jul 22, 2009 in
Best Practices,
Technology 
If you do a search for the phrase “Google Rules The World” you will come up with 2,010 hits on Google, and about the same number on Yahoo. My point is there’s lots of chatter about Google and their enormous suite of products (I don’t even know all of them). Then why is it that so few educators (that I know) use Google products? As I was talking with a friend the other day it occurred to me that many just don’t know about all Google has to offer. Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 21, 2009 in
Best Practices While I am no “newbie” when it comes to reading blogs, I most certainly am a newbie when it comes to authoring and setting-up one (see previous post!). That’s why I am extra honored to have been included yesterday in Tom DeRosa’s series 52 Teachers, 52 Lessons. Tom asks the insightful question: “what is the most important advice you can give to other teachers?”
It was so hard to narrow down my thoughts, but in the end I opted for some advice for a new teacher.
Tom is on week 25 of the series… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 21, 2009 in
Rants If you have visited my site in the last few days you may have noticed a couple of things: 1. no new posts and 2. odd & continual design changes, or perhaps 3. you weren’t even able to access the site. If any of the those sounds right, I apologize. Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 15, 2009 in
Technology 
Kevin Hutchinson, creator of the iConnect iLearn Ning site, came up with an amazing idea to make a web 2.0 key chain. He took a bunch of great sites and added them to “keys”, laminated them, then put them all on a key ring. It is such a great way to have your top sites right in front of you. You can see his creation at the iConnect iLearn Ning.
I love Kevin’s idea, but the keys just weren’t doing it for me. So I decided… Continue reading
Posted by Paige on Jul 13, 2009 in
Best Practices,
Technology
I heard about Drop.io last year and immediately thought of a dozen ways to use it in my personal life. In fact, it just came in handy when I needed to get a huge slideshow to a friend for use in his wedding. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized just how useful a tool Drop.io could be in my classroom.
First let me back-up a few months… Sometime last Spring I read a blog (I am SO sorry I don’t… Continue reading
