Archive for December, 2010

5 Techie Ideas for the New Year

Posted by on December 12, 2010 * Comments(0)

Just in case you’re looking to make any tech-related New Year’s Resolutions, here are a few ideas and articles that have caught my eye over the past few weeks. If you have more suggestions, please share them in the comments! To get us started, here’s an RSA Animate video of Sir Ken Robinson’s Changing Education [...]

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Switching to Google Apps

Posted by on December 5, 2010 * Comments(0)

We did it! Thanks all of Genki’s hard work, we have now successfully switched to GMail! Here’s the good news: All students from grade 4 – 12 have functioning e-mail accounts Formatting works – bold, italic, underline, pictures, etc (no more funky e-mails due to FirstClass re-routing) Tons more storage – 7GB and counting! Everything [...]

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Testing out Twitter?

Posted by on December 3, 2010 * Comments(2)

At last week’s tech training, we mostly talked about Twitter (thanks to Alan’s keynote for inspiring the discussion). Thought I would share a few tips and tricks here: One of my favorite resources for understanding new tech tools (and just about anything really) is Common Craft (their story is pretty interesting too). This is their [...]

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Thought Provoking Videos

Posted by on December 3, 2010 * Comments(0)

A few really interesting videos crossed my path this week, so I thought I’d share them here: Dr. Tae — Building A New Culture Of Teaching And Learning from Dr. Tae on Vimeo. The ideas in this video remind me of Apple’s Challenge Based Learning program. There are some great videos on that website as well [...]

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