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While I’ve never been a huge fan of flash cards, they certainly have their place in education.  Let’s be honst, practice makes perfect, and sometimes there’s just no substitute for it.

I remember spending hours creating flash cards on 3×5 note cards, spending hour after hour practicing with them, and then after the test trying […]

Guess what?
If you guessed that Jessica is pregnant and I’m going to become a father around  January 1st, 2007, then you’re scary good at these guessing games!
 was having a hard time believing it, but when they zoomed in during the ultrasound this morning and we could see the tiny little lime-sized baby (that’s his/her size […]

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Leave it to Dave.  One of my favorite things about his presentations are the way he handles his resources and ‘handouts’.  He has a wiki for each presentation with hyperlinks for the information he has talked about.  That’s cool.  Oh yeah, since it’s a wiki, anybody can add their […]

I can only read about so many people trying out a new browser before I have to give it a whirl myself.  So, today I’ve spent the day using Flock as my browser instead of Firefox. 
First impressions?  I like it.  It grabbed all of my Firefox settings, bookmarks, cookies, and such so I really […]

One of the things I always liked about Furl better than del.icio.us was that you could actually choose to make some bookmarks private. Just in case you didn’t want the world to know you were a huge fan of rodeo clowns, you could mark those bookmarks as private.
Turns out there’s a way […]

This is the brilliance of simplicity. Want to teach your students about historical figures? Not just their names and dates, but to really get into their heads? Then have them create MySpace profiles for them!
BionicTeacher shares a project he did in conjunction with an English teacher in his school called Medieval Space, […]

Ok, I feel bad cursing a college professor who certainly seems to be a genius, but I just can’t seem to topple Amir Dembo’s kung fu grip on the top spot when people do a Google search for Dembo!

What’s a guy gotta do to move up in the world?? Of course, he does have […]

This is strange, but very very cool. While browsing through ITRedux’s Office 2.0 database, I came across Gabbly. At first I thought it was just another web based IM client like Meebo, but I was way off base.
Gabbly is actually a site specific chat room that requires no code or installation […]

Feeling adventurous? Here’s your chance to give Windows Vista a try long before it’s out on shelves. Microsoft has put the beta up for public testing, so you can check it out if you have the incliination. I’m wondering whether it will work on the Mac, so I’ll be downloading it this […]

I noticed that the computer was a little pokey when switching between users and switching between operating systems with 512mb of RAM. It could be done, but it wasn’t all that snappy. Considering it was a new computer, I didn’t want to be feeling frustrated with it. So I spent $165 at […]

I love the fact that Apple now provides free recycling for anybody that purchases a Mac.  While this won’t work for schools (no institutions), you can definitely encourage teachers who make personal purchases to properly recycle their old hardware.  I know people tend ot hang on to their desktops forever, but at the very least […]

Don’t worry Dave, I’ll be at NECC too and I won’t forget to tag my posts.  It’s a good point though.  So if you’ll be attending NECC and doing any blogging, don’t forget to tag your posts with NECC06 !!

Well, if you use Chancery or Powerschool that is. 
In the past few weeks, Pearson School Systems has bought out Apple’s PowerSchool as well as Chancery Software.  I found it very interesting that Apple gave up Powerschool, considering how much of a stake they have in the educational market.  The article in eSchool does say […]

My wife’s Dell laptop is on its last legs.  The mouse button is messed up so we’re forced to use a USB mouse.  And now it’s not getting power unless it happens to be in just the right position.  Otherwise, it just dies at random times.  So, rather than get a divorce I decided to […]