Teach42

I registered Teach42 for Blogshares way back in the day, but never really got into it. Every once in a rare while, I’d swing by and look at it, but I didn’t ‘get’ it.

I can’t remember whose link I followed today, but I wound up on Blogshares and looked up this blog. At […]

I may not be working at a school right now, but I still wake up in a cold sweat when I think about scheduling parent teacher conferences. For years, it was an absolute nightmare for everybody involved. The parents had problems getting times that worked for them, in blocks that actually made sense. […]

Plenty of people have discussed whether Flickr is appropriate for education. There’s no quesiton it’s sexy, and if you have modest needs it’s free. However, it is essentially unmoderated and it’s possible for adventurous students to find images that are clearly not ed-safe.
Instead of dictating policy for his students, he brought […]

Thanks for the tip from Jim Wenzloff
Flickr has added a great new feature recently, drag and drop geotagging. The only way it could be easier is if camera had a GPS chip in it. Just click on Organizr and then click on Map. From there, you can drag your photos onto a […]

This one is good enough that I had to cross post it with the DEN blog.
CoolCatTeacher has got a fantastic post about how valuable commenting is as part of the blogging process. She also shares her tips for being a comment king or queen.
Commenting has truly been the fuel that has fired readership for […]

Via Cogdogblog:
Take a break today and enjoy a little Flash animation. If you’ve ever used Flash, you can truly appreciate the creative use of the various tools in the software.

Via Joyce Valenza
Podcasts of many of the sessions at the Building Learning Communities conference have been released! If you couldn’t attend, you should definitely check them out. Heck, even if you did attend, this is your chance to get a second helping.
My personal favorites are Marco Torres’ opening keynote, Andy Hargreaves’ day 2 […]

Around January 1st, my son will be born. He will be my first child. Let’s be honest, life is pretty uncertain. It’s possible he’ll be my only child. It’s my responsibility to raise him, to educate him, to instill morals and ethics into him. To prepare him for life in […]

I’m probably gonna get blasted for this one. I’ve been looking for some sort of software to create a custom, ed-safe MySpace. I posted about it and quite a few people suggested that I take a look at Elgg. Based on their advice, I decided to give it a shot.
First […]

After reading Guhlin’s post about his fears that Discovery Education is taking over the digital media world, I had a very interesting IM conversation with Hall.  To be honest, at first I wasn’t going to touch the conversation.  I think Hall is going to respond on our own blog.  But the conversation we were having […]

Cheater: When I get an assignement, the first thing I do is Google it.  I mean, if the answers are all out there, I’d be foolish to waste my time figuring them out the old fashioned way, right?  Somebody has a question, I provide an answer.  Do they really care whether I thought of it […]

I have to admit, I don’t watch or listen to the news too often. I get most of my news via the internet, or from discarded newspapers around the train station. So I had no idea bout the foiled terrorist plot this morning until some co-workers told me about it at work.
The first […]

I noticed today that there was a little red “NEW” next to the Video search for Google. I’m not exactly sure what’s new, perhaps the ability for users to upload video, but I thought you could do that before. Regardless, the shiney red “NEW” got me to click on it.
I was […]

While doing some searching around for work, I came across a post on the BlogSafety Community forum by Larry Magid entitled Deleting ONline Predators or Deleting Online Teens.
It’s well worth the read.  In a nutshell, Larry points out that while the act is intended to stop online predators, what it’s actually doing is stopping teens […]

Via TechCrunch:  Bloglines has proposed a standard for RSS feeds that will allow publishers to keep their feeds out of search engines.

Why should you care?  So if you want your students’ weblogs to be public and subscribable, but kept out of search engines to prevent completely random discovery, you have that option now.

Before […]