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Pogue shared a letter that’s got me all riled up again…
I’m a high school teacher. Like all high schools, we are dealing with a problem that sucks time, energy, and resources like a black hole: cellphones. We waged a similar battle a few years back with iPods, and although stakes seem much higher now, the […]

I’ve used TinyURL off and on over the years, but my usage of it really started skyrocketing when Twitter came on to the scene. When you’re limited to 140 characters, every single character is incredibly valuable! Shortening a URL down by even just a couple characters can really give you some breathing room. […]

It’s been a little while since I’ve gone through a lot of the feeds in my aggregator, but while doing some reading today one blog really stood out to me.  Ben, over at Tech Savvy Educator, does a fantastic job of highlighting some very practical ideas for integrating technology into education, and also demonstrating ways […]

Just to warn ya’all, I’m in the midst of upgrading to Wordpress 2.0 and getting a new theme set up (one that actually works in all browsers correctly). So the site will probably be up and down over the next few days.

I got an email the other day asking me how I’m deciding what should go up on the national Discovery Educator Network blog and what goes on Teach42.com. Umm… I’m not really sure just yet. I’m still trying to figure out just where that line is going to be drawn, and at […]

Spam Karma for Wordpress does a pretty darn decent job of filtering everything. In fact, it’s caught about 700 spam comments in the last two weeks, without even bringing it to my attention. Occasionally, a comment is held in a queue because it isn’t sure if it’s spam or not. I […]

I don’t post too much about my personal life on this blog, but this I gotta share. My sister has gotten engaged! Her fiance, Andy, should definitely feel privileged because she has incredibly high standards in everything that she does. From food, to clothes, to theater, and apparently in husbands, she knows […]

There’s a great little conversation going on about what sorts of things you’d include on a Video Wish List!. Hall listed some of his gear of choice, and several other people have chimed in with their own contributions.
From my days as a tech director, we found ourselves sort of reinventing the wheel, trying to […]

Kate took the time to respond to my Wikipedia v. Britannica postJust be careful letting your students use Wikipedia - because it is NOT an acceptable college
resource - so perhaps it is best not to teach your students bad habits.
Want to see an example of the garbage in Wikipedia - go to the entry for […]

Looks like I’m going to be heading out to PodcasterCon in January! I love the idea. It’s a totally free, Open Space conference. Want to discuss something specific? Then set it up! Right now I’m looking forward to hanging out at Warlick’s session: Podcasting as a Teaching/Learning Strategy, but there’s […]

Wordpress 2 was released yesterday. I still haven’t gotten my current template to work right in Wordpress 1.5 yet! Guess that means there’s no reason not to give it a whirl, eh?

If you already use Yahoo Mail, you’re going to be seriously stoked about this one. If you don’t use it, this could almost be a good enough reason to switch. I’m still a big gmail fan, but this has me drooling
Yahoo announced today that they’ve built an RSS aggregator in to Yahoo Mail. […]

At this point I’ve had to explain to explain so many times what I do during the day that it almost seems redundant to blog about it. It is pretty exciting stuff though, so I figure I should share anyway. Oh, and for the record, this is my general understanding of how things […]

The Edublog Awards 2005 have been announced. I think the hard part is going to be narrowing down my nominations to two per catgory. There’s so many good blogs out there that should be recognized.
The best part about the awards are that they let you know about the blogs you should be checking […]

Ok, I really shouldn’t get into this one because I know I’m going to wind up on a soap box, but Dean’s post about videoblogging has forced me to comment. He’s actually responding to a post of Alan’s, so you can get all the background you might need!
My two cents on video blogging: […]