If you’re in the Southern California area, please join me at the CUE Conference in Palm Springs. This Friday, March 6 at 11:30 AM I’ll be leading a live presentation of “Film School for Video Podcasters” based on my K12 Online Conference presentation. This session will be extended and interactive featuring four parts: Hope to …
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Awesome Photo Booth Effects
Here are some free additional photo effects for Apple’s Photo Booth program. Some of these only work in Leopard. Cat’s Eye and More iChat Effects These are great fun and come by way of Smashing Magazine.
How I Plan
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on How to Plan a Technology Lesson, today I break down how I planned my students’ movies, We See Animals Hiding. Unit Theme: Look Again State Standards: While this unit is about animal camouflage, the standard for California is more general, having to with animals and plants ability to …
How to Plan a Technology Lesson
The Blue Skunk blog presents 7 Stupid Mistakes Teachers Make With Technology. I’d like to address poor technology planning that I’ve written about in the past. I think poor planning pervades education and isn’t a problem specific to technology use but one that many classrooms suffer from. There’s nothing new or different about my method …
Greatest Hits of 2008
2008 has turned out to be one of the most significant in my life. It was a year of great loss as as well as great joy. Although I didn’t write so much about the latter, I became engaged to my long-time girlfriend, also a teacher, in September. And we will be beginning 2009 in …
Who Needs Textbooks?
In response to my post, Five Reasons Why We’re Not Integrating Technology in Schools, Michelle Bourgeois offers Five Reasons Why We Shouldn’t Integrate Textbooks in School. Laura Milligan goes one step further and offers 100+ Resources for Teaching Without Textbooks. Even though I think it’s the wrong argument to pit books against computers because we …
Become an Apple Distinguished Educator
Applications to the Apple Distinguished Educator program whch are taken only every other year are now being accepted for 2009. Consider applying if you are an Apple using educator. Benefits of the program include having a strong network of like-minded individuals who support and encourage you for life as well as ocassional access to Apple …
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What To Do With Student Data
To paraphrase Chris Lehman in his five minute Ignite Philly speech on the Schools We Need: Good data costs more than we want to spend in this country and the best data is the data that teachers collect every day. The best data is the work kids do every single day. I agree with this …
Edublog Nominations
Creating Lifelong Learners has been nominated for an Edublog for Best Individual Blog and Best Teacher Blog. I remember last year when I was a new blog and tried to nominate myself (it didn’t work). This year I thank Joel, Kevin, Elona, and Larry, and Angela for their nominations, for their own blogs, and for …
Nominations for the Edublog Awards
Nominations for the annual Edublog Awards are now being taken. Here are my nominations: 1. Best individual blog: Elona Hartjes—Teachers At Risk Elona’s blog continually inspires and encourages me both in my personal and teaching lives. 3. Best new blog: Angela Maiers A little more than a year old, Angela writes consistently about traditional and …