Educating today’s students for tomorrow.
No, BYOC does not mean bring your own cocktail although there are days… <Smile> what it does mean is to bring your own computer to the classroom. Now this is not a new topic to education but today I am going to give it a slightly different spin that just might cause a few folks [...]
Not a day goes by that I do not hear something about Open Source software. This could have something to do with the side of education I work in and/or the current state of the economy. Now, before I dive into my rant, I do want to make it clear I am not against free [...]
Late last year I changed jobs and I now have a unique situation where I work with and for two separate districts. It sounds like fun and it is. However, it does create a few challenges.
We all know email is a wonderful tool but managing two separate email systems with two separate calendars and [...]
Okay way back when Office 2007 came out, they had a blog template built in. However the first time I tried to use it, I was not able to connect it to my GoDaddy hosted WordPress blog. Bummer, yeah but I moved on and went back to writing in Word then used my old trusty [...]
I have been on Twitter for a few years now. Admittedly I am not an avid Twitter user mostly because what I am eating is not that interesting. But there are times I find it fascinating to see what other folks are up to. However, from day one on Twitter, I have always been cautious [...]
No, really, I was in Purgatory, Colorado, in a lovely 1 bedroom condominium which I thought would be far better than the Holiday Inn and it was less money. Plus, Expedia said this place had free WIFI. Life is good for this Road Warrior who chooses hotels based on free WIFI, a coffee maker and [...]
I sat down at my computer this past week and attempted to load Moodle on my hosted web site. Luckily, for me, the process is quite simple. Click the link that reads, “Install”. The short of the long story here is I was successful in installing Moodle but that is not the real reason [...]
One of my favorite things to teach people is what they can do with a product they own that they didn’t know about! Think about it, do you ever read the instruction manual? Of course you don’t. That is why it is so much fun to see a person’s face light up when they [...]
