Apple has an upcoming Education Media Event
The invitations are out so something will be going on this week. Rumors are that the announcements will be about new tools to create interactive e-books. What I hope happens in addition to the e-book tools would be a lower [...]
Considering Twitter?
I first signed up for a Twitter account quite some time ago, but never really embraced it. The people that I initially started to follow, didn’t seem to understand the medium either so we were like a few awkward people standing in a crowded, noisy place, unable to talk to each other. Time has passed, [...]
Wrapping up final projects for the end of the year
If you haven’t been in a school during the last few weeks before summer vacation, it’s a bit of a scramble to make sure that all the finishing touches get put on final projects. Here’s what we are working on: Katie’s class is putting the final touches on their Eaton Trail podcast. I’m building a [...]
Fakebook Greek Style
All of the Upper Unit students have created fake Facebook pages for their Greek god/goddess/character that they were assigned. The tool that we used is by Classtools.net and it uses a template to appear as a true Facebook page. Heidi Ringer and I had great fun coming up with ideas for favorite songs and movies. [...]
Independent Projects are moving forward!
Pru’s class is moving full-steam ahead with their independent study projects. Topics range from Japanese architecture to Leonardo da Vinci to a wide range of animal research. The students are researching a topic that they love and then creating a technology project to reflect what they’ve learned. They are choosing to create web sites, presentations, [...]
When in Rome…
Adobe announced Project Rome yesterday. Project Rome can be run as either web based or as a desktop application for Mac or Windows. Project Rome is an “all in one content creation and publishing” tool. For a limited time, it is available as a free preview. What I find particularly interesting is the fact that [...]
What if you purchased $1,000 of Apple stock in 2001?
Out of curiosity, I decided to figure out what if I had purchased a $1,000 worth of Apple stock back in 2001. There was a 2:1 split in February, 2005, so as of the market close on Monday, October 18th, your stock would now be valued at $90,457. I, sadly, did not purchase Apple stock [...]
SmartTable
Thanks to a Special Ed grant, there is a SmartTable in the Warren School Lab. The SmartTable allows multiple students to work around it, much like the high-tech mission control desk in a spy movie. It comes with preinstalled activities which run using Adobe Air. There are puzzles, arithmetic problems, paint, and a few other [...]
ToonDoo – online comics
We’ll be working on making comic strips with the Intermediate Unit over the next few weeks using ToonDoo. This will put to use the students’ creativity to work as they create a comic strip with pictures and drawings of their own. I can’t wait to see what they create!
First full week of school completed!
Phew! It was a hot one this week, especially for lugging computers around. The kids and teachers upstairs really put their sweat glands to the test. Here’s what we worked on in the computer lab: Kindergarten – We worked on our mousing skills: keeping the mouse “in its house”, clicking and double-clicking. We will log [...]