Category Archives: Social Media

Building a Collaborative Comparison with Google Docs

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

This past week I had my US History students looking at the variety of developments, economic systems, political arrangements, and connections with Native Americans that took place in the North American English colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries. To … Continue reading →

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The Ethics of Building Collective Review Sheets on Google Docs

Posted on September 2, 2011 by

I’m giving my first test in my American Government class next Thursday, and am currently encouraging my students to begin thinking about organizing their materials and preparing for that assessment. However, as this group of students is sophomores, I’m striving … Continue reading →

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Prepping for a PLN Presentation

Posted on August 14, 2011 by

This Tuesday morning I’ll be presenting to my colleagues during a day of professional development. I was given total freedom and flexibility to present on whatever topic I wanted, and I ultimately chose to talk about strategies and tools that … Continue reading →

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Got nothing to write? Might as well re-blog yourself.

Posted on October 4, 2010 by

In perusing through my RSS feed today, I noticed that ProfHacker posted their most recent installment of the Teaching Carnival, which always proves to be an interest overview of the most recent pedagogical blogging. I was delightfully surprised to discover … Continue reading →

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Reform Symposium Presentation = Saved for Posterity’s Sake & Thoughts on the iPad

Posted on August 2, 2010 by

Reform Symposium Wrap-Up Yesterday I posted the PPT presentation that Russ Goerend and I used for our session at the Reform Symposium on Saturday night. Today, after having seen a tweet from Steven Anderson I discovered that the recordings of … Continue reading →

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Reform Symposium Presentation Follow-Up: “Our Students Won’t Research the Way We Did”

Posted on August 1, 2010 by

As promised in my preview post right before the event, I’m now posting the slide show that Russ Goerend and I used for our presentation at the Reform Symposium on Saturday evening, July 31. One brief note about the slide … Continue reading →

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“Our Students Won’t Research the Way We Did”: Reform Symposium Presentation TONIGHT

Posted on July 31, 2010 by

At 7:30 p.m. CDT (or this time, if you happen to live somewhere other than the Central Time Zone), I’ll be co-presenting with Russ Goerend at the Reform Symposium about the transition from analog to digital research in our classrooms. … Continue reading →

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This Week in Narcissism

Posted on July 8, 2010 by

As perhaps we’ve established with some earlier blog posts, I’m quite interested in gleaning what minuscule amounts of evidence I can from the statistics WordPress collects about my blog and how people find it. Once I’ve closely examined the numbers, … Continue reading →

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ISTE Follow-up and MixedInk Session Recap

Posted on July 7, 2010 by

I returned from Denver last week having had a whirlwind two days at the ISTE Conference in the enormous Denver Convention Center. Although I didn’t catch the major keynote addresses in person or manage avoid all downtime by jam-packing each … Continue reading →

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ISTE MixedInk Session: And the topic is…

Posted on June 30, 2010 by

Well, the day is finally upon us. Dave Stern and I will be presenting on using MixedInk in the classroom at a Bring Your Own Laptop session at 1:30 Mountain Time today. After the Google Form poll that I conducted … Continue reading →

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