Almost two years ago to the day, I wrote a post, “The iPad: Why Teachers Should Care.” Flash forward to today, both of the schools I work at have purchased one iPad for each classroom. Although I’ve already mastered how to manage all the iDevices in my personal household, learning to manage iPads in an …
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How to Create Your First iPhone App
Introduction Since creating my first iPhone/iPad app, Reading Remedies, the question I’ve been asked most frequently by friends, family, blog-readers, and strangers on the street has been, “How do you create an iPhone app?” I am no expert on the subject but I’m happy to provide information on my experience and how I did it. …
Dropbox: Remote Storage Accessible Everywhere
It happens to everyone and it happened to me last year…my laptop hard drive died. The Apple Store replaced it, of course, but along with it I lost all of my data. I do regularly back up my data but if I back up every month or so, I lost a month or two of …
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.
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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 …
My Favorite Interactive Advertising Sites of the Year
I hope you’re enjoying your vacation and a well deserved break. I expect to return to serious blogging in the new year but this is just for fun. I’ve learned in 2007 that I’m a sucker for interactive advertising. It doesn’t make me go out and see the movie but it does get me to …
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Energize Your Classroom: How Jim Cramer Made Me a Better Teacher of English Language Learners
I’ve become a better teacher of English Language Learners by watching one of my favorite TV Shows, Jim Cramer’s Mad Money. This is a show about buying stocks. If you’re not interested in stocks you might be turned off already, but Jim Cramer is an entertainer. He takes what could be boring and incomprehensible and …
Cool Mac Apps for Cheap
MacUpdate is currently offering seven Mac Apps for just $50. The apps are ForkLift, RapidWeaver, Swift Publisher, Marine Aquarium, Xslimmer, MemoryMiner, and Yep. I’m familiar with Yep, it’s a cool iPhoto like application for PDFs which helps you organize and tag them. Marine Aquarium is an aquarium simulator (fun but not particularly useful). RapidWeaver is …