Ed Tech

Blogger is easy to post to, and integrates well with Flickr (which I love). It’s also easy to create a new post while viewing the site, something Wordpress lacks.
I prefer Wordpress’ categories/filters for organizing information. It’s easy to jump to exactly what I need. I also noticed the ability to add pages. This would be [...]

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Since this blog began, edublogs is now able to embed video into weblogs. An older blog, entitled “Recording Lost”, had an unreliable link to watch a quicktime video. Since its posting, edublogs has since embedded it without me having to alter any links, html, or preferences.
It is amazing to see how intricate my own [...]

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The goal of a PowerPoint presentation is not for the presenter to read aloud each slide for an audience.
Quite simply, this one point (no pun intended) will drastically increase the quality of a presentation. Of course, there are exceptions, where the goal is to read aloud the words; however, unless your audience is a class [...]

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Teacher will use technology if it is exciting and easy. As a tech leader at my school site, making technology immediately useful is the litmus test–”Will it make my life easier NOW!?”
There are simple ways to get teachers to use more technology; however, each step must be easy. Sharing an excel sheet for assessments can [...]

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Evolving Technologies (EDUC 515) should be renamed “EVOLVING technologies”. At any given point, between one and eight people in our class were completely frustrated with figuring out how to complete an assignment. Sharing this frustration with others greatly relieved stress for me and, consequently, led to enjoyable experimentations in blogging.
Without thousands of people hanging on [...]

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Hi, and welcome to my first official blog posting. I suppose this should become more extensive than the other page I (sort of) manage. Continue to check in.

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