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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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 really hit [...]

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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 [...]

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ok, I don’t really have much of a history; however, I feel I have developed some programming assignments thus far that allow tihe students to wrap their heads around all topics in Java. Both of these programs are not necessarily original ideas, but they allow the students to develop through the thought processes needed to [...]

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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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