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The Fourth Screen

With thanks to Rob Jacobs for pointing this video out in a post, Nokia has a fascinating little video/commercial out called “The Fourth Screen.” The video show the previous three “screens,” – movies, T.V., and computers – and shows how … Continue reading

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The feds get in on the act

It seems the Canadian federal government is setting up its own wiki to allow departments to post information on new policies and to offer comments and feedback on those same issues. The new wiki, dubbed GCpedia (the GC presumably standing … Continue reading

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Twitter Grader

Via Liz Davis’s tweet on Twitter I learned about Twitter Grader which determines your relative position in the Twitter world. Liz scored a staggering 99.3% making her one of Twitter’s most active and followed users. By way of contrast, I … Continue reading

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K12 Online Conference

I started attending the K12 Online Conference today. It’s been running for several days and is entirely online as the name would suggest. I started out by downloading a presentation and putting it on my mp3 player. I then walked … Continue reading

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A Common Sense Approach to Internet Safety

It’s not everything, but this video does cover a lot of useful material.

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Everything you wanted to know about numbers

In a valiant attempt to educate, the Mathematical Association of America has started a blog called NumberADay. AsĀ  you might expect, every day they post a new number along with some intriguing facts about it. The blog is a neat … Continue reading

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Social Media Classroom – Is it anything new?

There’s seems to be a lot of buzz about a new open source “Social Media Classroom” that’s being worked on. It allows blogs, wikis, chat social bookmarking, etc in a learning context. It is meant to be an addition to … Continue reading

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One of those slow days

Today we’ve got about a third of the Grade 11s out on some extra curricular activity or other. It’s one of those days where you’re not eager to keep going with your regular lessons, but you don’t want to quit … Continue reading

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The highs and lows of teaching with technology

Though my blogging seems to be going by the way side, the technology I’m always talking about is in near constant use in my class. I seem to have had my kids playing with computers this year far more than … Continue reading

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Daily Writing Tips

I have to give credit for this to DailyWritingTips.com Their e-mail newsletter provides daily writing tips (what else?!) and this morning’s letter had a couple of really fun ones. The Imagination Prompt Generator gives a random idea, unfinished sentence or … Continue reading

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