I find it funny how much time bloggers in Educational Technology spend talking about philosophies of education and technology, when it’s the practical things that matter to teachers.  Sure we can talk about constructivism in a lab setting all day long, but having a server in our school, pushing policies to all our computers is [...]

Delicious: Tagging The Web For Five Years And Counting Unbelievable to think that Delicious is five years old.  I first learned about it only this summer, four and a half years later.  I used to gather all my bookmarks in haphazard fashion from browser to browser.  I never cared about keeping a hold on my [...]

At the beginning of the school year, as an experiment, I hid my desktop on all my computers (PC and Mac).  No icons allowed.  No saving items on the desktop.  You can right click on the desktop and uncheck Show Desktop Icons.  I did it as an experiment, to see if I could wean myself [...]

Cool Cat Teacher Blog: Google Docs: Pushing the Limits and It’s Limitations I love Google Documents and I have been advocating for all teachers to use it with their students.  I think its most compelling features are: 1) sharing one document with many authors makes collaboration a breeze, 2) publishing a document on the web [...]

Grumpy Old Teacher: Excellent photos for schools Commonly when students create assignments and they need pictures for their projects, they use Google Images or Yahoo Images.  These services rip photographs from websites across the Internet.  This is bad practice for our projects.  It makes more sense for students to rely on the Clip Art included [...]