This week I am at the AP Institute in Bellevue, WA. Last year I came to this same institute alone, because I’d heard it’s the best around. I agree. Last year it rocked, and my presenter was the Chief Reader for AP Language. The beginning of the week began a bit quieter until my friends [...]

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In late spring a couple of up and coming students were working on a project where they needed to post something online. I just required these students to create GMAIL accounts, so I suggested Google Pages. Google Pages is a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) web page editor. This is free [...]

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Ok, I just installed Anarchy plug-in for WordPress 2.51. This is really a test post to show how you can use this to embed audio. While I have uploaded my favorite song, I will use this more for podcasting. Now let me ask you this. Am I breaking copyright? The song is Allison by the [...]

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Posted in Summer Reading, vidcasts

I got this tweet on my phone today about a site called Student 2.0. Since my own site is called Teacher 2.0, I was intrigued. Got back to the hotel and decided to check it out. Looks like a group of students from all over the world (Hawaii, Korea, NYC, New England, Washington State, etc…) [...]

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About a month ago I got an email asking me if I was interested in heading to Claremont University outside of Ontario, CA for a conference on facilitating learning communities in higher education. I didn’t know where that university was, but the email said it was all expenses paid. I liked that. It also fell [...]

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Firefox 3 was released today. I knew that this was coming, but I wasn’t really sure when. I googled it yesterday and found www.spreadfirefox.com. I was pretty excited and “pledged” to download FireFox 3 today (the release date). Well, I was in front of the computer by about 8:30AM thinking you could download beginning at [...]

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Liz B. Davis outlined the following ways to prepare our school students for the 21st century here. Follow this link.

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