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We've been interesting in purchasing space to use in the Google Web Albums, but I've been concened because the Terms of Service suggests that there will not be warnings before changes in Service. If I'm reading the terms correctly, they co…
One of the changes I made in my current laptop program was to discontinue insurance coverage on the laptops. We have the three-year Apple Warranties on the Macbooks, but we don't have insurance on accidental breakage or theft.
One reason we did thi…
A video taken during a recent visit to Singapore ... a Christmas Carol played on an unusual instrument.
Orchard Road with a backdrop of the Christmas lights
Share your work arounds and enhancement requests for Finalsite.
2010 NAIS Annual Conference at Moscone Convention Center
February 24, 2010 at 9am to February 26, 2010 at 7pm
Adapt, Survive, and Thrive: Unleashing the Superpowers Within
"The 2010 NAIS Annual Conference is designed to support interests expressed by independent school leaders - all of whom face intrinsically difficult issues within their unique positions.…
Discuss which technology skills are essential to the job of an educator and how to measure and improve teachers’ capabilities for productivity and classroom integration through the use of technology standards or proficiencies.
I know that many of you use Flickr with your classes. Others of you use Flickr for other purposes like archiving school photos for promotional, development, and such.
Flickr's Community Guidelines clearly state that the service is for personal use…
Online School for Girls Adds Four More Member Schools
A nationwide consortium of four independent all-girls’ schools that created in June 2009 the first-ever online school dedicated to secondary education for girls this past fall has expanded its m…
Let me know what you think of this project and if you've tried something similar. I'm happy to share details.
Bullis School teacher Sara Romeyn talks about using Facebook as a teaching tool in her AP U.S. History Class.
Please view a short (3 minute) interview about my recent History project: Using Facebook as a teaching tool.
Processing (processing.org) is a Java-based language that allows you to do some exciting visual effects and at a much more advanced level link realtime data to algorithms to present data in visual formats. Digital artists use it for that creative el…
Nice one, Fred. As a digital enthusiast, I'd happily stick to the task of enumerating the real skills we can identify our students may need for the future, so long as someone doesn't then make them mandatory, stick them in a list to provide a checkb…
James,
How does this fit with the following famous quote attributed to Socrates?
"Worship the gods if you wish, but first, know thyself."
Fred
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