This summer I am taking a course called Project and Report as part of my instructional technology program. The goal of the course is to select a topic of interest and spend approximately 150 hours developing a project. My proposal was approved, and my adviser seem enthusiastic about it. Here is my proposal. Project Description…
My student Josh is one of the the developers of a new social networking service called Moodify.me . As Josh describes it, “It’s a site similar to Twitter but is based around peoples’ moods.” It integrates well with Twitter and Facebook, enabling you to update your mood and send the update as a status update….
Thank you all for your patience with my Back to School contest. I am pleased to announce that the winning entrant is Candace! Candace submitted a lesson unit on Macbeth. You can read her blog Mrs. Follis’s Teacher Page for more. Congratulations Candace, and thank you to all of you who submitted ideas. Candace has…
If you want to enter the lesson plan contest, you have until midnight tonight. Over the next few days, I will read the entries and notify the winner via e-mail and announce the winner here. A reminder of what you get if you win: a flash drive packed with handouts in MS Word and PDF…
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I have to thank Buffy Hamilton for showing me the potential in creating a Netvibes page. You can see her page on Iran Election events for a sample. Imagine being able to gather information related to a topic your students are studying in one place, including RSS feeds, video, and blogs. Imagine students gathering the…
For the first time ever, I am having a contest. It is my hope to help one of the English teachers who reads this blog get a bit of a jump start on the school year. What do you have to do? Share a lesson plan in the comments. Rules: Your lesson must be appropriate…
I was cleaning house on Twitter today, and as I made some decisions, some thoughts occurred to me. Reasons I might not follow back: You follow so many people that you can’t possibly be keeping track of all your conversations unless all you do is read Twitter. You don’t share valuable information or links. You’re…
I have begun research into consulting, and I have decided to hang out my shingle as a consultant in integrating technology (especially Web 2.0 tools) into instruction and perhaps backwards design planning. I registered a domain for my Web site, which I began building using iWeb. I may play around with Dreamweaver or do some…
I created a Diigo group for my students some time ago, but it wasn’t until Monday, when we had a snow day (weird that we’ve had 70° weather in the same week as a snowstorm) that I invited all my students to join. The lack of response has been deafening. I understand to a degree. …
