Teach42

I just wrote and deleted an entire entry about how frustrated I am with the red tape here at my school. I don’t want to get into it, but the feedback that i’m getting from my Head of School is basically, “Glad your so excited about it, let’s discuss it further. Sometime. […]

An article on SchoolBlogs.com referenced a great argument regarding why someone might want to use Weblogs in schools. The original article can be found on The FordLog, and is quite a lengthy post. Definitely worth the read. Some of the highlights for me though were:
Christina was in the process of researching her […]

Abject Learning did the first WikiCast that I know of. Basically it’s a podcast but with interactive visual aids. It’s really fantastic, and shows the potential for the evolution of presentations. Powerpoint was a great tool for presenters, but really when you get right down to it, it’s no more than overglorified […]

Ok, maybe it’s just because I didn’t get enough attention as a child, but I feel really proud when I see that someone else out there is excited by something that I wrote. :Anne posted on Ed-Tech Insider about Why Weblogs Work. I’m still pretty new to blogging and this site hasn’t really […]

From Ed-Tech Insider
The bad news came today via email from our state Deptartment of Education. The 2005 Omnibus Appropriations Bill approved by the House and Senate over the weekend includes large cuts in educational technology funding. The biggest cut comes to the State Education Technology Block Grant (Title II Part D) which will be cut […]

I’ve been delving deeper and deeper into del.icio.us lately and really liking what it offers. For one thing, I’m finding it easier to keep track of my bookmarks on multiple computers. Between different browsers on different machines, I have about 6 sets of bookmarks. I’m slowly but surely moving all of them […]

I recently got myself a GMail account and have been toying around with it. So far, I’m sold. Yes, it’s just another email account, and no it won’t wash the dishes for you, but it does have some very nice time saving features.
My first day of test driving it, I had […]

I love walking the dog. Know why? I’ll tell you! Because I get to listen to a Podcast. It’s probably the best time to listen to one because most of them are the perfect length. Today I listed to the Nov. 14th broadcast from Dave Slusher. I’ve listed to […]

Alan posted about a new search site today, A9.com.
It’s been about a Google years since I got interested or even raised an eyebrow at a new search engine, but this one is worth a click. If I can scan the docs right, it is “powered by Amazon” (uses Amazon logins and likely for […]

While driving home and listening to :Will’s second :podcast, something he said struck a chord with me (besides the shoutout!). He was mentioning that the conference he was returning from, the Conference for Managers of Information Technology, recorded the conference in blog format. They used Blogspot.com, I’m assuming because it’s both free and […]

I just spent the last 10 minutes searching the web for cheap MP3 players with voice recording. Why? So I could help Barbara Ganley figure out how her students could podcast during their blogging field trip. I’m not sure whether my information will help her out or not, but I […]

I was thinking about the site itself and realized that I might as well register www.teach42.com It will just make a little easier for people to get to, and it really doesn’t cost much at all. Why am I bothering at all? My father bought dembo.com a few years ago. He […]

The Ed-Tech Insider corner of eSchool news has gone the way of blogs. The current list of people who are contributing it are people that I greatly respect and whose blogs I read on a regular basis. Will Richardson is participating as is Anne Davis, who I greatly respet and have written about […]

I came across an article on the NSBA’s web site today that related to the perception that computers and software can actually increase student learning.
In perusing some good stuff out there we have missed in recent weeks, we came across a fabulous series of articles in the Baltimore Sun, which took an in-depth look at […]

Ok, it’s all starting to spiral out of control. I have my bloglines account. I used to read my daily blogs from there. However, then I started using Firefox, and the live bookmarks feature is so convenient that I just created live bookmarks for all the blogs I read regularly. I […]