Mr. Higgins’ Blog

I had the privilege to be part of a meeting with a few Fujitsu representatives regarding our one-to-one tablet project at the school.  Anyone that reads this blog knows how excited the the tablet PC and Web 2.0 topics makes me; therefore, I felt like a kid in a candy store.  We are expanding the [...]

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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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…since I actually blogged about anything.  As seen in my last blog, I have been very busy with my five preps as a first year teacher.  Thank you to those who chatted or commented back on my post.  It really helped me gain perspective about what CAN be done. . AP Computer Science Marine Biology [...]

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Web 2.0 and the inspiration on my daily life is tremendous, especially when I feel the urge to create something that would allow teachers from all over to really benefit from sharing ideas.  So, the idea of the AP Computer Science A / AB Wiki was born.  Here are my ideas for this wiki… Teachers from [...]

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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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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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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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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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