Mr. Higgins’ Blog

…you can with FlashEarth. This is a great altenative to Google Earth becuase you simple go to flashearth.com and can begin finding any place by entering a city or attractin. Do not expect to enter an address necessarily; however, it does a great job with coordinates if entered correctly. I was introduced to this when [...]

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…Jim Valvano’s famous speech at the 1993 ESPY awards.  This is one video I watch to get inspiration.  Many of you have seen this video, but it is worth it to watch again. Jim Valvano Acceptance SpeechUploaded by PigLips   “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up”

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First things first… I could basically do a cartwheel right now after seeing my APCS A students AP Examination scores.  Scores will remain anonymous; however, I will say that the average score was 4.8.  I hope you (“you” know who you are out there) learned a great deal from the course.  I guarantee I learned [...]

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On Saturday, I was at Jacobs Field to watch the Cleveland Indians play the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.   The Indians pitching ace, CC Sabathia, is now 12-2 after an 8-6 Indians victory.  The Devil Rays made it interesting in the 9th inning when Rafael Perez gave up 3 runs in the bottom of the ninth [...]

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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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At the k12 online conference, Julie Lindsay discusses the idea of a Professional Learning Environment in her presentation.  I am a believer in an environment like this which provides links, content, and discussion that is involved in the learning process.  I run my school website using Drupal, a content management system, which gives me many [...]

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I’m a mathematics and computer science teacher, but my first love was geography and weather.  I used to, besides eating cottage cheese, draw maps all of the time of the world, the United States, and just about anything that had to do with latitude and longitude.  From the age of 3 to around 7, I [...]

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At the k12 online conference, in their presentation titled “Toward a System of Online Curriculum-Sharing”, Rob Lucas and Kevin Driscoll discuss and show many examples of websites that allow teachers to share lesson plans and curriculum.  As a young teacher, I have explored these website on my own and these resources are important to both [...]

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