Mr. Higgins’ Blog

     Yesterday at the eTech Ohio Conference, I listened to Will Richardson for his first three sessions (excellent by the way).  I was privileged to learn from the following presentations on his weblogged wiki: “Weblogs in Schools”, “A Web of Connections…Why the Read Write Web Changes Everything”, and “Podcast, Vodcast, Screencast Nation.”  Listening to his [...]

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After reading Will Richardson’s blog titled “The You Tube War”, I started thinking about a flash game named Line Rider. The popularity of this small flash game is simply astonishing, especially after appearing on YouTube. It happened in my class that a student stumbled across the Line Rider game in our community and within a [...]

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…and reading other bloggers blogs. Being Christmas Break now, I did some physical and mental house cleaning and took sometime to sort through my RSS feeds to see which ones I truly read and which ones I just sort of glance over from time to time.  Here are the main blogs I read and what [...]

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I’m currently a first year who has just realized something…that might save me and the way I view my the early onset of my career. The other day I noticed that my web development class was not very engaged with the concepts after 12 weeks of the 18 week course. We do HTML code, Adobe [...]

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It was very interesting listening to Chris Kaminski and his students discuss, through the k12 online conference, their experiences and thoughts concerning Web 2.0.  As a young teacher, I felt like I was one of the students pleading to use technology in more classes and to have teachers that understand Web 2.0.  I may not [...]

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The Basic/Advanced Training Keynote by Alan Levine at the K12 Online Conference was an open box to me because it didn’t send a message to me, it made me click on the links contained on the keynote post.  Is this a bad thing?  Absolutely not, because I realized the power of tools like SlideShare, Writely, [...]

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As i’m listening to Bud Hunt, in his “A Week in the Classroom” keynote at the k12 online conferene,  I keep thinking about all of the educational resources that continue to get blocked each and every day.  As a teacher who has students on the internet all of the time in web development and programming, [...]

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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 [...]

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