April 2010 Blog Posts (106)

Cracking the AIEEE 2010 and getting the best of AIEEE results is a task many students try to master every year. Every year a new batch comes in with a fresh set of notions about AIEEE. However, the crux of the AIEEE exams as the AIEEE 2010 is approaching remains the same – get your concepts clear. AIEEE 2010 as can be said from past years’ experience is not a conceptually tough paper but definitely is a bit tricky looking for a little presence…

Authentic Practice with the Writing Process

Scholastic's Kids are Authors Contest is an annual contest for grades K-8 designed to motivate young authors to use their reading, writing, and artistic skills to create and publish their own books. Students are encouraged to work in teams of three or more to write and illustrate their own fiction or…

Last week I wrote about how Etherpad was going shut down pads starting on the 14th. Since then I have learned of another new alternative. Actually, this one is Etherpad in a resurrected form. Apparently, in December of 2009, Google bought Etherpad with hopes of integrating it with Wave. However, according to Lifehacker.com, they quickly shut it down. This didn’t make Etherpad users happy, so Google put the collaboration platform back online as an open source app. To make a long story short,…

The Duggar family is a very well known family, largely due to their reality television show on TLC. I personally am a huge fan of their television show and have learned so much from watching them grow and learn, as a family, throughout the years. Their website can be seen by clicking here. The duggars are known for the slightly above average size of their family (Mr. and Mrs. Duggar have 19…

In today's classroom, it is not uncommon to have assignments online. In Educational Technology, it is natural for most of the course work to be through a computer, as computers are the most prevalent form of technology for Americans, though the cellphone is becoming it's rival.

Online or electronic assignments are great for teachers. They take away many excuses, have a clear submission time and date, and are easily compared with other…

So in looking at this class (and other social media outlefts) available, some of them I think would be hard to use in the classroom.

I think Twitter could be a fun, useful site, at the same time hard to control. Even for this class, I personally found it hard to use Twitter as something other than a social escape. In talking with Paco, we decided it was possible, for example, the way Drew uses Twitter- for talking with people about educational things. But since I started using…