Mr. Higgins’ Blog

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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At the k12 online conference, the Overcoming Obstacles Keynote by Anne Davis made me think about my own obstacles that I face.  She points out a few obstacles that include “lack of time”, “resistance to change”, and a “control issue.”  Out of the many different situations, these three really stick out in my own mind. [...]

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In Ewan McIntosh’s professional development keynote at the k12 online conference, he addresses various subjects that are involved with teachers as learners.  As a first year teacher, I feel I have been going to professional development courses/institutes for awhile, they were called college classes.  I remember I had a professor that said the worst students [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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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