Mr. Higgins’ Blog

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I am really looking forward toward the start of the K-12 online conference with speakers such as David Warlick and Will Richardson. Those of you out there in the educational blogging/web 2.0 universe should check out the k-12 online conference which starts on October 23rd.

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I attempted my first ever week at using blogs in my Web Development classes. I currently have two of these classes and have a total of 44 students in the course. Using Cool Cat Teacher as a model…I used the same story that was prompted for her students. Here is how I presented the blogging [...]

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Part 1 As someone who is entirely too organized almost all of the time, there is a lot of house cleaning I find myself going through when it comes to how to organize my school website. My school website is power by Drupal which thus far is my favorite content management system because of the [...]

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