Mathematics and Computer Science Teacher going to bat for Web 2.0.
Posted in Teaching, k12online06 on Oct 31st, 2006
At the k12 online conference, Katie Logan presented on a topic about at-risk students in an online world of high school education. In principle, I do not agree with education online before college. There is certainly nothing wrong with using the internet and all of it’s innumerable innovations, but I hear too many students make [...]
Posted in Blog, Teaching, k12online06 on Oct 28th, 2006
Whether or not the “e” missing in the word Flicker bothers you, Flickr is a great Web 2.0 tool that is more than just a photo collector. It is a way of communicating and sharing experiences around the world. Jeff Utecht’s presentation at the K12 Online Conference titled “Getting to Know Flickr” detailed an introducation [...]
Posted in Blog, Classroom Website, Teaching, k12online06 on Oct 28th, 2006
As part of my continuing involvement in the K12 Online Conference, I checked out RSS for Educators (Advanced) presentation. The presentation was very thorough and contained a great of information about rss readers, rss feeders, and anything else that involves rss; however, the most impressive part of it was the pdf file that is included [...]
Posted in Blog, Teaching, k12online06 on Oct 25th, 2006
Mark Wagner, at the K12 Online Conference, made a presentation titled “Blog if You Love Learning: An Introduction to Weblogs in Education (Basic)†that I felt I had to checkout because of the novice experience I have with actually implementing blogs in my classroom. He presented many great resources, including example teacher blogs and educational [...]
Posted in Classroom Website, Teaching, Wiki on Oct 23rd, 2006
Vicki Davis, aka Cool Cat Teacher, had her time in the sunshine at the K12 Online Conference with her presentation titled “Wiki Collaboration Across the Curriculum.” I enjoyed the organization at which she exhibited during the actually video presentation as well as in real life at her blog and class wiki. Her information [...]
Posted in Computer Science, Teaching on Oct 21st, 2006
After eight weeks working through the Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 BASICS bookwith my students and nearly half way through our semester of Visual Basic, I felt a review of the book so far was warrented.
We have covered the following…
1: A First Look at Microsoft Visual Basic2: Forms, Controls, and Properties3: Events and Code4: Mathematical Operators5: [...]
Posted in Classroom Website, Computer Science, Teaching on Oct 21st, 2006
I wanted to experiment with having the students submit files online through my website in order to cut out the time it takes to collect and print out programs. I can now view the file in the browser, copy it off the server, or actually comment back to the student on the forum all using [...]
Posted in Blog, Teaching, Wiki, k12online06 on Oct 17th, 2006
No, i’m not talking about the Race for the Netxtel Cup. I’m talking about the conference that I have waiting for ever since I wanted to become an educator, the K12 Online Conference. The keynote address by David Warlick was extraordinary and is only adding on to the thoughts are spilling out of my head and [...]
