Category Archives: EdTech

TOP 10 things to consider when using a new service or online tool.

What am I agreeing to?Creating an account = signing a contract. Each time you accept or agree to “terms of service” (ToS), you sign a contract between you/the organization and the service. What information am I sharing?Each time you accept or … Continue reading

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Device concerns for our Apple 1:1 and the future

This coming June we will be refreshing our device fleet and celebrating what will be the 10th year our 1:1 learning initiative. The program has held at its core the learning goals and has let those goals lead the technology choices … Continue reading

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Thoughts and musing as I start my 25th year.

How many of you knew that I started at my current, first and only job as a student teacher in 1993? I was a student at Montclair State University and planning on becoming a third grade teacher. I had previously … Continue reading

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Using Evernote to Manage your Personal Learning Network (PLN)

A teacher is a life-long learner, a student by nature, and their learning process continues to grow and develop in many ways. Experiences in their classroom, conferences, people they meet, colleagues, listservs, blogs and people they follow on Twitter or … Continue reading

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Google is offering a $99 Chromebook! Wait…does cheap make it right?

This is a quick reactionary piece to two things I read today that have me scratching my head.  Both related to Google and the Chromebook. As reported on Engadget “Google (is) offering $99 Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks to public schools” … Continue reading

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Picking the right wireless for your school.

Prior to the deployment of our 1:1 Learning Initiative we spent over a year working on our infrastructure.  Switches, firewalls, access points and other network devices/appliances were demoed and tested to handle DHCP, DNS, RADIUS, content filtering and connectivity.  We … Continue reading

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The Tale of Two Posts. Using analytics to talk about writing.

When I talk to teachers about getting them to have their student write and publish online I talk about a number of things. When you look at the research and writing process the last part of that process is publishing. Writing … Continue reading

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Evernote Trunk Conference: Rethinking Education (Video)

On August 24th, 2012, Reshan Richards (@reshanrichards) and I, along with Rob Van Nood (@evernotefolios) had the opportunity to speak at the Evernote Trunk Conference on “Rethinking Education” with Evernote. Reshan and I discussed how we came to use Evernote … Continue reading

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What I did on my Summer Vacation.

With summer is officially over I feel it’s about time for that recap every person has asked to write at some point in their lives… What I did on my Summer Vacation. While this isn’t necessarily going to be about … Continue reading

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Cloud Computing in Education

[Originally posted elsewhere on 7/28/2009, but the topic came up again in a conversation and thought to move the post here.] Cloud computing is described by Wikipedia as: Cloud computing is a style of computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as … Continue reading

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