Category Archives: Tech Integration

DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION!

Posted on May 23, 2013 by

This week I had an interesting experience. I received and email that was vague, but critical, about a project I had been working on. Like anyone, I hate having to mull over everything I have done wrong. I do make it a point to … Continue reading →

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Recording Your Grading Process

Posted on November 13, 2011 by

Accuse me of milking the flipped classroom post and Scott Meech’s lengthy comment and I would say – damn skippy! But cute cows are not the focus of this post. The focus is technology in the classroom! More specifically, screen-casting … Continue reading →

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Video Games – Can they make learning fun?

Posted on October 31, 2011 by

So can video games make learning fun? Tall response: NO! Grande response: No, because… Edutainment games are clunky Edutainment games are not multi-million dollar franchise games Our students are very diverse with some people play first person shooters, other play … Continue reading →

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Advanced Bulletin Communication Display (ABCD)

Posted on October 26, 2011 by

At school, there was a request that we show more student work. Uhm, ok…I teach tech classes like programming, digital video and digital photo. Operative word being “digital”. The students do their work and upload it to a blog or … Continue reading →

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Textbooks of Tomorrow – Infograph

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

My wife is a librarian and consumes all things published. She reads books and her Kindle library is nothing short of impressive. She reviews books on her very popular blog (anabundanceofbooks.blogspot.com) and came across this infograph about where textbooks are … Continue reading →

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My lesson plans are on my desk

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

For about 8 months I’ve been scouring the Internet for a free, easy to use, attractive, and easy to share lesson planning program. It didn’t matter to me if I could download it or use it online. I found only … Continue reading →

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Want some free Blogging support?

Posted on May 9, 2011 by

IT Babble is growing faster than ever, and most of that is due to you the readers. Please keep tuning in, sharing what we write, and leaving those comments, we love it. One way we thought of saying thanks was … Continue reading →

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TimeRime – Final timeline generator review

Posted on May 8, 2011 by

Sorry for the delay. My wife and I had guests all week long and our 3 year old has been wired as a result and I needed the weekend to recover We end our timeline creator review series with TimeRime. … Continue reading →

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Tiki-Toki – The review

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

For all of our devoted readers out there, you may notice that Tiki-Toki was not originally part of our timeline review extravaganza, but they reached out to us through Twitter and asked if we could review them. I am glad … Continue reading →

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Posterous.com – A quick how to

Posted on May 2, 2011 by

I’m going to take a tiny break in my timeline extravaganza to quickly add a how to guide for Posterous.com. This blogging platform is pretty sweet and perfect for the casual blogger who cares not for widgets and the like. … Continue reading →

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