Posted in Blogging, Teaching, Tools on Feb 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
Today was another one of those days that made me really happy to do what I do. Almost happy enough to not mind getting stuck on snowy, slippery roads trying to climb the mile-long hill leading up to my house on the way home from school (in my Honda Civic)
Last week, a colleague [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ramblings, Tools on Feb 10th, 2008 2 Comments »
Ok, here’s something I learned this weekend that is going to make my life MUCH easier when composing and editing blog posts and anything in moodle. (Very possible that everyone else in the world already knew this and I’m the last to know, but that’s ok. We all have to learn sometime!) Thanks much to [...]
Posted in Tools, Uncategorized on Feb 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
In my previous post on del.icio.us, I expressed my dismay that it was really difficult to bookmark anything if you weren’t able to download the del.icio.us buttons to your school computer. Well, readers came to my rescue and provided tips that should help me and other teachers who are unable to download at school. Patrick shared his [...]
Posted in Screencast, Tools on Feb 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
Just have to share :-) Here’s a link to my first screencast that I actually used with a friend tonight. She asked in our IM chat if I knew how to put a link in a blog post (she’s starting to blog with her 7th graders) and I said, “Yay, I get to try a [...]
Posted in Screencast, Tools on Feb 3rd, 2008 3 Comments »
A quick recap of a tip I learned today when working with screenshots - thanks to @lisibo for the inspiration!
I’m working in moodle creating a course right now and was having the HARDEST time trying to figure out out to get a screenshot with Jing of a right-click menu (or anything related to a mouse-click), since [...]
Posted in Blogging, Evidence of PD, Ramblings, Screencast, Teaching, Tools on Jan 28th, 2008 No Comments »
The title says it all.
***I’d like to give credit where credit is due - my post yesterday, Here’s Your Evidence - Part 1, was completely inspired by the following:
A conversation with Eric Brunsell about the value of Personal Learning Networks in pre-service teacher training
Carolyn Foote’s post Keeping It Real about “personal learning networks and how [...]
Posted in Evidence of PD, PLN, Teaching, Tools on Jan 27th, 2008 5 Comments »
As a teacher falling under the fairly new PI-34 statutes in WI regulating new teacher licensing, it’s all about evidence of learning and reflection. I’ll need to create a Professional Development Plan (PDP) before next fall and and decided to start investigating the specifics of this slightly-scary sounding document that must be completed for license [...]
Posted in Tools on Jan 26th, 2008 9 Comments »
Wow. My goal was to find and use 1 new web tool each week, but I’ve already met my goal for the month just today! Here are 2 of my finds!
Jing
This screencapture tool rocks my world, and I’m not exaggerating when I say it made my day. I’m writing an online Intro to Technology (VERY basic and for [...]
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