I know a lot of people have already responded to “If I Were A Poor Black Kid” but no one did it in quite the mocking way I’d hoped for so, as usual, I gave it a shot when I probably should have let it go. I started off angry and just became more depressed […]
Year: 2011
Daily Shoot Meets #VSTE
We were looking to do something to get participants more involved in documenting the VSTE conference this year. Essentially what we decided to do was create a random assignment generator and aggregate that content to a Posterous blog. We’ll work on our Tebowing skills but all in all it feels like it worked pretty well. […]
My Take on #DS106
I recently tried to present something on #ds106 and MOOCs in general at VSTE. It’s probably best it wasn’t filmed. I’m going to try to present something more coherent in writing.1 This will be a description of what made this course work for me although I believe it could be generalized at least some to […]
Common Tools, Irregular Uses
Files Screenshots Word – Onion Skinning Comic Templates – Word/PPT PPT – Visual Timer Excel – MadLibs style Excel – Code breaker Excel – Self-Checking Crossword Puzzle Google Forms – Choose Your Own Adventure (Spreadsheet) Google Earth – Choose Your Own Adventure Excel – Easy HTML Formatting WordPress – Dictionary, Audio Repository, student newspaper etc. […]
Google Form as Choose Your Own Adventure Tool
Just a quick proof of concept for a session I’m doing at VSTE. I’m trying to show how you can use most things in all sorts of ways despite what they were intended to do. Apparently the example Google put out for this way back when actually used choose your own adventure to demo the […]
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All My Cars are Immigrants
I heard this line coming home. My drama need a passport. All my cars are immigrants.1 How could I not make a poster for Gucci Mane and adding a whole slew of immigrant cars? I’m sure he meant he had a lot of Kias. 1 Language and themes in this song are questionable if you […]
VSTE Conference Presentations
I’ll be updating this post as I pull the content together. These are presentations I’m doing at VSTE this year. Common Tools, Uncommon Uses Take a sideways look at educational uses for common tools and websites. Projectile motion in Word? Google forms for a choose-your-own-adventure novel? Yep. Stuff like that. This isn’t meant to be […]
Bloom’s Rocks!
Rocks are going to REVOLUTIONIZE education! Just look how easily rocks cover all levels of Bloom’s! Remembering I write things on my rocks and it helps me remember. I can also use rocks as eco-friendly flash cards. Understanding Comparing my rock to other rocks demonstrates my understanding. Sometime I categorize all of my rocks. Applying […]
HCPS’s Path to 21st Century-ish Stuff in 5 minutes
In case you’re feeling masochistic, here’s my 5 minute Ignite style presentation on Henrico’s path to 21st century skills.1 You can see the other 5 min presentations here. It’s an interesting national look at what people are trying to do. I’m always interesting in how these things overlap. 1 Yes, I plan to transition to […]
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SETDA Notes
I’m at the State Educational Technology Directors Association leadership summit, yet I am clearly not a state director of anything. Nonetheless, it is an interesting place to be and I’ve heard and had a number of interesting conversations. I’m going to attempt to get a few of them down on digital paper before they get […]