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End of the agrigarian school year

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

A long time between posts, I know.  By some strange miracle I have made it to the end of another school year and on reflection, it was a fairly fulfilling year.  My programs were more organized than ever, and I have immersed myself more fully into the technologies that will improve student learning.  This summer [...]

The Wiki phenomenon

Friday, April 25th, 2008

I’ve now got the hang of Wiki. For me, it’s easiest to think of it as a large filing cabinet in the office that everyone has access to. Just got done setting one up for a recording project. So far, so good… TH

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Tech, and the future of education

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

http://www.techlearning.com/blog/2008/03/web_20_is_the_future_of_educat_1.php
A blog entry for the future of education- TH

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How to… well, you gotta practice!

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

So I’m fully ensconced in learning various online tools.  The previous post has an embedded video that I created using jing (jingproject.com), a very slick utility that allows you to create videos using screenshots from your desktop + audio from your built in microphone.  Very cool - suffice it to say, I did not format [...]

Need current techie help?

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Need  help understanding what all the fuss is about RSS readers, wikis, blogs, and other techie internet stuff?  Check this out!  They make it easy to understand stuff that’s new!  TH
http://commoncraft.com/

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First post to my edublog

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Hey folks!  I have many blogs, but this one seemed right for my education purposes.  I’m currently teaching elementary music for the General McLane School District.  My kids are busy working on our upcoming spring program.  I’ll post more here when I actually have more to share.  Feel free to subscribe!  I’ll be pontificating about [...]