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I love technology and education. Maybe you like knitting. Cool. My thing is educational technology.

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Blogging

(technical) Oh goodness, I'm using PERL.
1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
10 Reasons you should care about the Common Core State Standards Initiative's Draft English Language
A mostly terrible time
Beautiful documentation
Becoming familiar with HTML 5
Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 1
Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 2
Blogging and eFolios
Changing and tweaking!
Crossing the line and blogging. What crosses the line?
Domains, hosts, and more!
Don't use excel for important work
Early morning
Emerging software architectures and non-relational software
eschoolNews likes my comments about the NETP
Exceptional article on video game addiction
Experiential Learning and Technology
Expression Engine 2.0 Beta
Expression Engine 2.8 is out!
Expression Engine and Drupal
Facebook and privacy
fail2ban
Good OS X video converter
Google RSS news reader
Greatest email in the history of the internet
How do I use blogs in my classroom: securing a blogger blog.
How do I use blogs in my classsroom: an answer.
How do you teach web design in 2010?
HOWTO: reset lamp hours for a 600i series 2 unfi 45
I hate internet filtering
I'm off facebook
iPad = Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
Is anonymity bad?
just trying to make it to vacation...
Letting go / picking up
More tools to combat cyberbullying
my word cloud - um, if you care
myspace, teens and education...
No peace without balance of power
On Gawker and Passwords
on postfix...
Online cyberbullying - a real challenge for parents
Project management tools
QUESTION: moving to cloud-based storage
Really impressive comment spam here!
repost: Do Teachers REALLY Come From The Bottom Third Of Colleges......
Sabbatical learning - part 1
Sabbatical learning - part 2
Sabbatical planning
Sabbatical update 2
saying goodbye to an idea
Site redesign - not just a blog
So you want to blog, eh?
Social Media and PLN's: a lot of a little
Some nice press attention
State of the blogosphere
Sublime - is just so...good...
Thank you ISTE - one of the best blogs for June 2008!
The 10 moms doctrine
The best IT certifications are no certifications
The blur
The disadvantage of Always (The blur - part 2)
The Finnish
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The Many Hells of PDF's and PHP
The original hum
The problem with URL shortening...
The volume of the fringe...more science fiction
Transcend and Include - the future will have part of the past in it....
update from Poland
virtual private servers: an update
Want a great blog? do this...
Was Queen Elizabeth II repaid for the tea that was thrown into Boston harbor during the tea party?
What about the future, what about science fiction?
What I want: Twitter group (categories) in an RSS reader.

Computer Science

A wonderful way to learn software engineering
Building a computer science wiki
chatGPT part 3: how do I know you know?
chatGPT: teaching computing
Computational thinking, Minecraft and a 5 year old?
Current thinking about chatGPT
Displaying courses in grid format on moodle homepage
Entity-Component-System (ECS)
How do we measure students computational thinking?
Increasing complexity == increasing time to read
Need a procedurally generated country?
Object construction
Procedural generation as a teaching approach
Six rules for asking questions in computer science
The design cycle works
The future of high school computing
What is computational thinking in K-12 space?
What is computer science in a K-12 school?
Writing a report card comment generator
Yea! I learned something that I actually used!

Educational Tech

(technical) Oh goodness, I'm using PERL.
1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
7 highly effective Facebook habits
A 0.00 lightbulb
a 0.00 lightbulb - part 2
A 0.00 lightbulb - part 3 (final)
A day in the life of an instructional designer....
A disagreement on the iPad potential...
A trouble ticket success story: part 1
A trouble ticket success story: part 2
Alternative Assessment with technology
Always ask, never fix
An introduction to SAMR
Animal dissections should not be computer simulated
Arne Duncan advocates open source
Average child spends 10 hours, 45 minutes per day using media
Balanced Gaming
Beautiful documentation
Becoming familiar with HTML 5
BECTA Report: The impact of digital technology
Being integrated and meeting technology standards - how?
Better than the real thing?
Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 1
Blogging and education: a great mix. Part 2
Blogging and eFolios
BoinxTV - I'm a fan
CDW thinks technology adds value to education. And they have charts to prove it.
Cyberbullying Protocol
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Digital image library solution?
Digital Learning: a video that gets close to SAMR
Digitally inclined: new research report from PBS
disabling private browsing: a pain in the neck
Discernment and EdTech
Does everyone need to learn to code?
Don't use excel for important work
Earth From Space: collection of pictures
Ed Tech and Elementary School
Edtech Conferences - worth it?
Educational Network Security - part 1
Educational Network Security - part 2
Educational Technology in Public School Districts
Edward Tufte is a smart guy
Emerging software architectures and non-relational software
Emotional Intelligence and being a Director of Technology
Evaluating Technology Coaches with NETS-C
Excel gradebook templates
Expression of Learning?
Fab-fi
Facebook in class isn't the problem
fail2ban
From the BBC: Computers can impact on children's ability to learn, says union
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Games and compulsive internet use
Geeks on the difference between training and learning
Getting Geeks Going
Gifted Education and Technology
Goals for this upcoming year
Google apps in three states
Google security whitepaper for schools
Google Wave - time sink?
Google: using shared calendars
Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
Great slideshow about searching - a question to Dulcinea, though...
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Hacking in High School: yes, but....
How about using the technology for the actual learning rather than just to demonstrate it afterwards
How do I use blogs in my classroom: securing a blogger blog.
How do I use blogs in my classsroom: an answer.
How do we know if it's true?
How do we know they know?
How do we understand transformation & SAMR?
How do you effectively manage technology in an organization with low resources?
How do you evaluate technology coaches?
How do you teach web design in 2010?
How is twitter different than RSS?
How should teachers use technology?
How to integrate technology in schools?
How to keep track of good websites?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I like the cloud - sort of.
I'm finished at Hunter
If it's all online, what am I going to teach?
Impact of ICT in schools
Important Online Safety Technology Working Group report
Inform 7 released! Interactive fiction
innovate and distance learning
Integrating technology in public schools: part 1
Integrating technology in public schools: part 2
Integrating technology in schools: part 3
Interesting article and online discussion about "teaching computers"
Internet safety
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Interviewing for a data manager
iPad for education - Not yet...
Is 250 sheets of paper a year enough?
is twitter educational?
Is Wikipedia reliable?
ISTE Essential conditions are just...right.
It's not my job
It's quiet
ITIL Certified and Management in Schools
ITIL in Education
ITIL Lifecycle Processes
ITIL: Services in a K-12 School
Jenkins talks about myspace and the future of learning and teaching.
Just finished Code Academy Intro to PHP
Just let them do their job
Kindle / ebook reader as electronic textbook?
Lazy Credibility?
Lesson Plan: Using wikipedia
Linux security
Mac vs PC
Major new edtech report. Some technology doesn't help math and reading
Membership in Computer Science Teacher Association
Middle School Laptops: a heavy burden?
MOOC's, learning, and teaching, oh my!
More tools to combat cyberbullying
Moving an enitre school to dropbox?
Moving from a drop-off model to an integrated model
National Educational Technology Plan - more stuff?
Naviance
Net Restore and niceness
New Games in Education custom search !!
New school year coming - my goals
oh wow...we might start using moodle
On blocking and banning and somesuch
On Gawker and Passwords
Online cyberbullying - a real challenge for parents
Online Learning
Online learning in k-12? Meh....
Open Source in education
Outsourcing a school website
Pain Value Analysis & Problem Analysis
Parent technology partnership is filtering at the router
Parents, students, teachers and Moodle: who see's what??
Parents: friending your kids on facebook?
Parents: here's a template for technology contract with your kids
Parents: your kids will probably see these movies soon. Beware.
PBS videos on iTunes
PD, ed-tech conferences and student learning...
Phase-change memory: something worth at least knowing about
Poland goes PEGI
Poland, here I come!
Presentation: the SAMR model of integration
Pretty CSS font styles
Professional development
Project Management in Education
QUESTION: moving to cloud-based storage
Questions in educational technology leadership
Quick! How can we make technology work in education?!
Quick! Part 2
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
repost: worst practices in IT
Rolling your own in education
school is starting. Jesus, I'm busy....
School websites and information overload
Schools Interoperability Framework
Security and the absense of reason
Seven things you should know
Should Instructional technology specialists be geeks?
Should schools totally ban electronic devices?
Silence is success in IT
Simple questions about school data
simple searching
slashdot tackles educational technology
Slashdot: Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education
Smartboards: not so smart?
So many systems to manage....
Social Media and PLN's: a lot of a little
Some nice press attention
Stack Exchange: better questions and answers
Standardization
STEPS and international ed-tech
Stolen equipment
Student laptops in the classroom
Stunning: One-to-one computing programs only as effective as their teachers
Subversive technology integration
Summer in educational technology
Support
Tablet Frenzy - FAQ for the interested
Tablets, netbooks, and refrigerator's
Teaching advanced applications
Tech Coaching vs Tech Coordination
Technology competencies for school administrators
Technology integration matix
Technology Integration—Will We Know It When We See It? A New Taxonomy
Technology Professional Development
Technology Support Index
Technology Survey
Technology, learning and choice...
Teens video games and civics
Text-based games podcast
Thank you ISTE - one of the best blogs for June 2008!
That Beautiful moment of aha!
That thing about Twitter - I still prefer RSS
The 10 moms doctrine
The 2011 Horizon Report released
The bandwidth usage of Youtube
The beautiful aha
The best IT certifications are no certifications
The blur
The case for using delicious
The Destiny of OPAL?
The Digital Citenzship Opportunity
The disadvantage of Always (The blur - part 2)
The doubt of the cloud
The Finnish
The four noble truths of technology and learning
The four noble truths. Explained, part four.
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The four noble truths. Explained, part three
The four noble truths. Explained, part two.
The internet rots your brain
The Many Hells of PDF's and PHP
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
The problem with URL shortening...
The time has come, the danger is real. It's time to ban pencils
The two realms of Ed Tech - part 1
The two realms of Ed Tech - part 2
The two realms of Ed Tech - part 3
The Water Cooler Effect
The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?
Thou shalt not use stuff the Wrong Way
Time Magazine: are kids too wired for their own good?
Toolkits and tricks
Transitioning to google apps for education
Twitter and the same old passwords - I'm guilty of this also.
understanding your network
Using Expression Engine as a event / building and grounds request system
Web-based garage band? Yes please.
Welcome readers from M*U*S*H : updated with log
What do you think of virtual private servers?
What does an instructional designer do?
What does it mean to be accountable?
What goes in the image?
What I like about wiki's (and wikipedia)
What is a good school website??
What's out there? Why I think the future is in web-based services
What's up with educational technology anyways?
Who is using technology in your school?
Why do teachers use tech?
Why dual booting Apple computers are a big deal in games in education
Why Gaikai is important
Why I love doing my job: bake sales
Why podiums or wireless LCD's are better than plugging....
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology
Why Wikipedia?
Wiki's and education?
Windows: Math Fractals and Graphing program
Yet another reason to love EE
Yet another reason to love Google...
Your elementary school needs a supercomputer

Games in education

10 easy ways to miss the boat
2008 Conference Notes Games in Education Conference
7th grade Minecraft Project
9 Paradoxes of learning through video games & simulation
A COTS game with potential: SPORE
a good idea, a great idea
A new year and some new games
A stampede ...
An invitation to try computer games in your classroom
Animal dissections should not be computer simulated
Answering serious questions about serious games
Balanced Gaming
Best way to learn programming for a 16 year old? Build a game....
Board games in the classroom?
Can Eve Online be played casually?
CEESA Games in Education Notes
CEESA Minecrafting
Computer games during the summer
COTS game design that works
Criteria for evaluating games in education
Defining Games in Education
Designing games
Designing video games helps kids learn?
Different categories of games in education
Digital Games based learning article
Do you need more money? We need to win this thing!
Dungeons and Dragons for 6th graders?
Evaluting educational potential in a COTS game
Evidence, evidence!
Exceptional article on video game addiction
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Game Research - updated December 2009
Games and assessment: a closer look
Games and compulsive internet use
Games and multitasking. A good thing?
Games and Socialization: are MMO's bad for your social life?
Games Developer Conference: Jesper Juul on broadening the game-meme
Games in education wiki
Games, public schools & religion
Getting to Z: part 1
Getting to Z: part 2
Getting to Z: part 3
Getting to Z: part 4
Getting to Z: part 5
Getting to Z: Part 6 - Final
Getting your foot in the door
Grand Theft Calculus
Harnessing the power of video games for learning
Helping teachers use games
Hold the bar higher
I want to approach buying the game as a learning opportunity
Inform 7 released! Interactive fiction
Informal Learning and Video Games
Instructional Design and games in education
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Interviewed on podcast
Is Eve Online Educational?
John Kirriemuir does it again!
Know any good books on educational gaming?
Mastering uncertainty: A predictive processing
meta-analysis shows games work
MMORPG's in education
My kids want to use Unity3D for a science project
My little existential crisis about COTS games....
New Games in Education custom search !!
New interview from the San Francisco Chronicle
News story: Video games help children learn
Paper and Pencil games
Podcasts feed finally working!
Poland goes PEGI
Presentation: games in education notes
Procedural fantasy weapon generator
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 2
Railroad Tycoon III in the classroom
Real teachers, real games. The Games Developer Conference beckons!
Reality Bytes: Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked
Richard Bartle on Games and Learning
Serious games conference notes available
Some answers to some common questions:
Spore in the NYT"
Teens video games and civics
Text based games in an after school program
Text-based games podcast
Text-based games with a group of 11 year old kids
Thank you Baruch
The fourth type of game - kagfs
The right circumstances for games in education to work
Three types of games in education
Um, EA? What are you smoking?
USA Today quoted WHO?!
Using Civilization in class
Violence and Computer games: a response
Virtual Worlds in education
What would you teach a group of 11 year old kids about text based games - part 4
Where is the game research?
Why do people play computer games?
Why dual booting Apple computers are a big deal in games in education
Why you tube, indeed.
Wiki help

HOWTO

Displaying courses in grid format on moodle homepage
Excel gradebook templates
Google: animated guides for google applications
Google: Managing google alerts
Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
HOWTO: Blackboard: announcements
HOWTO: Blackboard: assignments
HOWTO: Blackboard: books
HOWTO: Blackboard: Course Documents
HOWTO: Blackboard: course information
HOWTO: Blackboard: how to add and remove students from your courses
HOWTO: Blackboard: introduction to the control panel
HOWTO: Blackboard: manging links
HOWTO: Blackboard: organizing folders
HOWTO: Blackboard: Staff information
HOWTO: google: sending email from different accounts
HOWTO: Google: setting up groups in google (especially for teachers!)
HOWTO: Introduction to quickmaps.com
HOWTO: reset lamp hours for a 600i series 2 unfi 45
HOWTO: turn a normal name into a username with excel
HOWTO: Use google pages
HOWTO: using del.icio.us
HOWTO: using giffy.com
HOWTO: using YouTube in education
HOWTO: wiki's and you
It's quiet
Linux server with lots of students - assigning individual read / write for students in /var/www
MYSQL: changing a field type to longtext
Office: how to annotate a Word document
Office: how to password protect an office document
OS X HOWTO : finding recently changed files
OS X HOWTO: backing up using a USB thumb drive
OS X HOWTO: Introduction to OS X
OS X HOWTO: introduction to Word
OS X HOWTO: record a narrative using garage band
OS X HOWTO: Saving to a specific folder
OS X HOWTO: use a usb thumb drive
OS X HOWTO: Using iCal
QUESTION: moving to cloud-based storage
Transitioning to google apps for education
Using Google documents
Windows HOWTO: Creating filters in Eudora
Windows HOWTO: excel and charting
Windows HOWTO: getting clipart
Windows HOWTO: inserting clipart in word
Windows HOWTO: Introduction to excel
Windows HOWTO: Introduction to powerpoint
Windows HOWTO: introduction to Windows
Windows HOWTO: Powerpoint advanced
Windows HOWTO: printing in powerpoint
Windows HOWTO: smartboard 101
Windows HOWTO: Using Acrobat Reader for new users
Windows HOWTO: using flickr
Windows: HOWTO powerpoint grouping and motion paths

Linux

Fab-fi
fail2ban
Linux certification
Linux security
Linux server with lots of students - assigning individual read / write for students in /var/www
Multiple versions of PHP on the same web server
rebootless updates? Yes please.
Reform ECPA: Tell the Government to Get a Warrant
virtual private servers: an update
Why I love Ubuntu and my frustration at work

Mindfulness

From the BBC: Computers can impact on children's ability to learn, says union
Great youtube video: be here now
iDiots: a clever commentary on what we may become
Mindfulness in schools: a good article

News

A trouble ticket success story: part 2
Average child spends 10 hours, 45 minutes per day using media
Balanced Gaming
Blacklists and you: some information
Dedicated servers for dedicated things
Discernment and EdTech
Domains, hosts, and more!
Games in education wiki
I'm off facebook
Last day of school
Letting go / picking up
On Gawker and Passwords
Outsourcing a school website
Poland, here I come!
Welcome to the new site!
What the hell?!?
Wiki help

Personal

(technical) Oh goodness, I'm using PERL.
#dungeon23
2004 professional goals
A perfect vacation
A trouble ticket success story: part 1
Ah, Lem - Do widzenia
Announcement
Back from Thanksgiving!
Balanced Gaming
Becoming familiar with HTML 5
Biography of yours truly...
Call to Boycott Circuit City
Can Eve Online be played casually?
Certified in New York!
Classic text-based games
Coming together and eating
comments now working!
d&d community site
DEIJ - part one
Design changes finished
Domains, hosts, and more!
Don't use excel for important work
Emotional Intelligence and being a Director of Technology
Excuse me, Bermuda? Please pay close attention to me!!!
Expression Engine 2.8 is out!
Expression Engine and Drupal
Google chrome for MAC
Greatest email in the history of the internet
Happy IWD!
Happy New Year!
Holiday
Holiday
I'm off facebook
iDiots: a clever commentary on what we may become
In d&d 4e, can a dwarf throw-assist an elf over a wererat, and as the elf is flying overhead, shoot
Is anonymity bad?
J.K Rowling
Just finished Code Academy Intro to PHP
just trying to make it to vacation...
Last day of school
Latest resume
Letting go / picking up
Light on the horizon!
Liminality
Linux certification
mackenty.org wins eSchool News award!
Membership in Computer Science Teacher Association
Merry Christmas!
More on learning HTML 5
Multiple versions of PHP on the same web server
my daughter is teething and our school's wiring closet - related events?
My first usenet post
My idea of a good social experience for teachers
MYSQL: changing a field type to longtext
New animation on the horizon
no, really. Use linux.
Off the Grid
On Gawker and Passwords
on postfix...
Out of the Office!
Parenthood?
Poland, here I come!
Poland, here we come
Polish Resume
Project management tools
Recharging my blogging batteries
Reform ECPA: Tell the Government to Get a Warrant
RSS links for text-based games
Sabbatical learning - part 2
Sabbatical update 1
Sabbatical update 2
Sept 11 2006
setting up a podcast
Some nice press attention
Spock?
Sublime - is just so...good...
Summer in educational technology
Thanks, Gary
That's a LOOOTTTT of bytes!
The 10 moms doctrine
The nightmare that is learning Polish...
The Sin of the Episcopal Church
Thoughts and Prayers...
To understand Poland, you've got to understand Russia
um, WoW?
Vacation!
We are coming for you....
What do you think of virtual private servers?
YES!!!!!!!
zomg, I am so tired my current favorite word, and the new thing I'm learning

Teaching Diary

1st graders and South Park
A stampede ...
Becoming familiar with HTML 5
Best way to learn programming for a 16 year old? Build a game....
Building a computer science wiki
Building an LMS (or virtual learning experience) - part 1 of 3
Building an LMS (or virtual learning experience) - part 2 of 3
Building an LMS (or virtual learning experience) - part 3 of 3
busy day teaching
chatGPT part 2: how we change our teaching and student learning
chatGPT part 3: how do I know you know?
chatGPT: teaching computing
Current thinking about chatGPT
Digital image library solution?
Displaying courses in grid format on moodle homepage
Entity-Component-System (ECS)
Experiential Learning and Technology
Expression Engine 2.8 is out!
Expression Engine and Drupal
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Geeks on the difference between training and learning
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
Hacking in High School: yes, but....
How do we measure students computational thinking?
How do you evaluate technology coaches?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I'm finished at Hunter
I'm off facebook
Increasing complexity == increasing time to read
Just finished Code Academy Intro to PHP
Lesson Plan: Using wikipedia
Linux server with lots of students - assigning individual read / write for students in /var/www
Membership in Computer Science Teacher Association
More on learning HTML 5
My idea of a good social experience for teachers
Need a procedurally generated country?
Open Source in education
Parents: your kids will probably see these movies soon. Beware.
Procedural fantasy weapon generator
Procedural generation as a teaching approach
Project management tools
repost: Do Teachers REALLY Come From The Bottom Third Of Colleges......
Robotics
Sabbatical planning
Sabbatical update 1
Sabbatical update 2
Six rules for asking questions in computer science
Social Media and PLN's: a lot of a little
Sublime - is just so...good...
Teaching advanced applications
The 10 moms doctrine
The blur
The design cycle works
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The future of high school computing
The real problem with American public education?
The Tethered Self
Um, I'm now the faculty advisor for the karaoke club...
What I learned today
What would you teach a group of 11 year old kids about text based games - part 3
Why I love my job
Writing a report card comment generator
Yea! I learned something that I actually used!
YES!!!!!!!

Text-based gaming

Good text-based gaming links
Hspace and Textual 3D space
Interactive Fiction after school program
Myrddin's Global Bulletin Board v. 4.0.6
Original fortran code for Adventure - part 2
Original fortran code for Adventure - part 3
Original fortran code for Adventure - part 4
Original fortran code for Adventure part 1
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 2
Review: Legends of Zork
RSS links for text-based games
Text based games in an after school program
Text-based games with a group of 11 year old kids
Transitioning to google apps for education
What would you teach a group of 11 year old kids about text based games - part 3

Twitter

#dungeon23
Edtech Conferences - worth it?
Greatest email in the history of the internet
How is twitter different than RSS?
is twitter educational?
Social Media and PLN's: a lot of a little
That thing about Twitter - I still prefer RSS
Twitter and the same old passwords - I'm guilty of this also.
What I want: Twitter group (categories) in an RSS reader.

Writing

A mostly terrible time
As far as dinners go,
chatGPT part 2: how we change our teaching and student learning
Early morning
No peace without balance of power
Project management tools
Sabbatical learning - part 2
Sabbatical planning
saying goodbye to an idea
The bear
The faltering
The future of high school computing
The original hum
The volume of the fringe...more science fiction
Transcend and Include - the future will have part of the past in it....
update from Poland
What about the future, what about science fiction?

Bushcraft

Our Wisla
The two types of forests
Tramping in Kabaty

Update

Regular Update
Sabbatical update 2

Design

7 highly effective Facebook habits
A 0.00 lightbulb
a 0.00 lightbulb - part 2
A 0.00 lightbulb - part 3 (final)
A disagreement on the iPad potential...
Alternative Assessment with technology
BoinxTV - I'm a fan
CDW thinks technology adds value to education. And they have charts to prove it.
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Digitally inclined: new research report from PBS
disabling private browsing: a pain in the neck
Ed Tech and Elementary School
Edward Tufte is a smart guy
Emerging software architectures and non-relational software
Expression of Learning?
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Geeks on the difference between training and learning
Gifted Education and Technology
Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
Great slideshow about searching - a question to Dulcinea, though...
How about using the technology for the actual learning rather than just to demonstrate it afterwards
How do we know they know?
How do you teach web design in 2010?
How should teachers use technology?
How to integrate technology in schools?
How to keep track of good websites?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I like the cloud - sort of.
Interesting article and online discussion about "teaching computers"
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Interviewing for a data manager
It's quiet
Lazy Credibility?
Middle School Laptops: a heavy burden?
More tools to combat cyberbullying
Moving an enitre school to dropbox?
Moving from a drop-off model to an integrated model
Net Restore and niceness
Online cyberbullying - a real challenge for parents
Outsourcing a school website
Parents, students, teachers and Moodle: who see's what??
PD, ed-tech conferences and student learning...
Presentation: the SAMR model of integration
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
repost: worst practices in IT
Rolling your own in education
School websites and information overload
Schools Interoperability Framework
Silence is success in IT
slashdot tackles educational technology
Slashdot: Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education
Student laptops in the classroom
Tablets, netbooks, and refrigerator's
Technology integration matix
Technology Professional Development
Technology Support Index
Technology, learning and choice...
The 10 moms doctrine
The 2011 Horizon Report released
The Digital Citenzship Opportunity
The doubt of the cloud
The four noble truths. Explained, part four.
The four noble truths. Explained, part one.
The four noble truths. Explained, part three
The four noble truths. Explained, part two.
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
The problem with URL shortening...
The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?
Thou shalt not use stuff the Wrong Way
Transitioning to google apps for education
understanding your network
What goes in the image?
What I like about wiki's (and wikipedia)
Why Gaikai is important
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology
Why Wikipedia?

Gifted

Gifted Education and Technology

Leadership

1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
An introduction to SAMR
Average child spends 10 hours, 45 minutes per day using media
BECTA Report: The impact of digital technology
Being integrated and meeting technology standards - how?
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Digital Learning: a video that gets close to SAMR
Does everyone need to learn to code?
Ed Tech and Elementary School
Edtech Conferences - worth it?
Educational Technology in Public School Districts
Evaluating Technology Coaches with NETS-C
From the BBC: Computers can impact on children's ability to learn, says union
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Goals for this upcoming year
Great slideshow about searching - a question to Dulcinea, though...
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
How do you effectively manage technology in an organization with low resources?
How do you evaluate technology coaches?
Interesting article and online discussion about "teaching computers"
Interviewing for a data manager
iPad for education - Not yet...
It's not my job
It's quiet
ITIL Certified and Management in Schools
ITIL in Education
ITIL Lifecycle Processes
ITIL: Services in a K-12 School
Just let them do their job
Membership in Computer Science Teacher Association
More tools to combat cyberbullying
On blocking and banning and somesuch
Online cyberbullying - a real challenge for parents
Outsourcing a school website
Pain Value Analysis & Problem Analysis
PD, ed-tech conferences and student learning...
Poland goes PEGI
Poland, here I come!
Project Management in Education
repost: worst practices in IT
School websites and information overload
Silence is success in IT
Slashdot: Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education
Tablet Frenzy - FAQ for the interested
Tech Coaching vs Tech Coordination
Technology competencies for school administrators
Technology Integration—Will We Know It When We See It? A New Taxonomy
The 2011 Horizon Report released
The four noble truths. Explained, part four.
The four noble truths. Explained, part two.
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
Toolkits and tricks
Transitioning to google apps for education
understanding your network
What does it mean to be accountable?
What's out there? Why I think the future is in web-based services
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology

platform

1:1 programs, facebook, and how we teach
Arne Duncan advocates open source
I like the cloud - sort of.
Mac vs PC
Middle School Laptops: a heavy burden?
Moving an enitre school to dropbox?
Net Restore and niceness
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
Security and the absense of reason
Tablets, netbooks, and refrigerator's
The Destiny of OPAL?
What goes in the image?
Why Gaikai is important

Security

disabling private browsing: a pain in the neck
Educational Network Security - part 1
Educational Network Security - part 2
Google security whitepaper for schools
Important Online Safety Technology Working Group report
Internet safety
Linux security
More tools to combat cyberbullying
On blocking and banning and somesuch
On Gawker and Passwords
Parent technology partnership is filtering at the router
Parents: your kids will probably see these movies soon. Beware.
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
Security and the absense of reason
Stolen equipment
Twitter and the same old passwords - I'm guilty of this also.

Smartboards

Great podcast and a comment about making tech easy to use
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
It's not my job
Smartboards: not so smart?
Why podiums or wireless LCD's are better than plugging....

Support

a 0.00 lightbulb - part 2
Differentiated Distraction and blocking?
Edtech Conferences - worth it?
Evaluating Technology Coaches with NETS-C
Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction
How about using the technology for the actual learning rather than just to demonstrate it afterwards
How do you effectively manage technology in an organization with low resources?
How to integrate technology in schools?
How we name our servers, and Apollo
I like the cloud - sort of.
Interns, support, and the relaxing summer life in ed tech!
Is 250 sheets of paper a year enough?
is twitter educational?
It's not my job
Lesson Plan: Using wikipedia
Moving an enitre school to dropbox?
Net Restore and niceness
Really? Microsoft? Do you really write such bad code?
Rolling your own in education
School websites and information overload
Should schools totally ban electronic devices?
So many systems to manage....
Stack Exchange: better questions and answers
Standardization
Stolen equipment
Stunning: One-to-one computing programs only as effective as their teachers
Support
Tablet Frenzy - FAQ for the interested
Technology Professional Development
Technology Support Index
That Beautiful moment of aha!
The bandwidth usage of Youtube
The Destiny of OPAL?
The doubt of the cloud
The Naked Truth about 1:1 Laptop Initiatives and Educational Change
The Water Cooler Effect
The way IT is supposed to be...in schools?
Using Expression Engine as a event / building and grounds request system
Why ROI is hard to measure for school technology
Your elementary school needs a supercomputer

Practical Advice

10 easy ways to miss the boat
2008 Conference Notes Games in Education Conference
7th grade Minecraft Project
Best way to learn programming for a 16 year old? Build a game....
Board games in the classroom?
Computer games during the summer
Different categories of games in education
Frontline's digital nation documentary
Interview with scholastic - Play to Learn
Mastering uncertainty: A predictive processing
My kids want to use Unity3D for a science project
Procedural fantasy weapon generator
Quivering Communist Zombie Space Death - Part 1
Railroad Tycoon III in the classroom
Some answers to some common questions:
Thank you Baruch
The right circumstances for games in education to work
Using Civilization in class

blackboard

HOWTO: Blackboard: announcements
HOWTO: Blackboard: assignments
HOWTO: Blackboard: books
HOWTO: Blackboard: Course Documents
HOWTO: Blackboard: course information
HOWTO: Blackboard: how to add and remove students from your courses
HOWTO: Blackboard: introduction to the control panel
HOWTO: Blackboard: manging links
HOWTO: Blackboard: organizing folders
HOWTO: Blackboard: Staff information

general computing

HOWTO: reset lamp hours for a 600i series 2 unfi 45
HOWTO: turn a normal name into a username with excel
MYSQL: changing a field type to longtext
Office: how to password protect an office document
Windows HOWTO: Creating filters in Eudora
Windows HOWTO: introduction to Windows
Windows HOWTO: Using Acrobat Reader for new users

google

Google: animated guides for google applications
HOWTO: google: sending email from different accounts
HOWTO: Google: setting up groups in google (especially for teachers!)
HOWTO: Use google pages
It's quiet
Transitioning to google apps for education
Using Google documents

office

Excel gradebook templates
Google: Managing google alerts
HOWTO: turn a normal name into a username with excel
Office: how to annotate a Word document
Office: how to password protect an office document
OS X HOWTO: introduction to Word
Windows HOWTO: inserting clipart in word
Windows HOWTO: Introduction to powerpoint
Windows HOWTO: Powerpoint advanced
Windows HOWTO: printing in powerpoint

os x

OS X HOWTO : finding recently changed files
OS X HOWTO: backing up using a USB thumb drive
OS X HOWTO: Introduction to OS X
OS X HOWTO: introduction to Word
OS X HOWTO: record a narrative using garage band
OS X HOWTO: Saving to a specific folder
OS X HOWTO: use a usb thumb drive
OS X HOWTO: Using iCal

web 2.0

Great Prezi from Nick Kwan on the SAMR model
HOWTO: Introduction to quickmaps.com
HOWTO: using del.icio.us
HOWTO: using giffy.com
HOWTO: using YouTube in education
HOWTO: wiki's and you
QUESTION: moving to cloud-based storage
Windows HOWTO: using flickr

Links

Good text-based gaming links
Hspace and Textual 3D space
Interactive Fiction after school program


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