Category: Tech Integration

These are blogs I've written about integrating technology into my Science classes.

New Bloggers and Twitterers

Okay I couldn’t think of a better word than Twitterers because Tweeters just sounded wrong. Our PLC’s WA STEM Grant work has been moving along. At our first meeting everyone started a blog and wrote their first blog post. I wrote about and shared their blogs here: Becoming Bloggers. At our second meeting everyone started …

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Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2011/07/20/new-bloggers-and-twitterers/

Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2011/03/09/giving-feedback/

iPad’s Promise and How to Use it Now

This is another cross post I wrote on the IEAR website. Zemanta’s August 13 post regarding, “What do teachers really want in an ‘Educational App?’” has hit the nail on the head. Ever since I bought my first iPhone back in 2008 and since then seeing kids use their iPod Touch I wanted more than …

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Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2010/08/18/ipads-promise-and-how-to-use-it-now/

iPads in Science

iPad third screen.

[See iPads in Science 2 to see what I learned a year later.] I am very fortunate. Of the 19 years I’ve been teaching I’ve gotten at least one grant for 12 of those years; 10 of them have been the last 10 consecutive years. Four years ago I received a couple of Best Buy …

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Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2010/06/30/ipads-in-science/

Avatars

My photo, zombified.

You can make an avatar like the one below with Portrait Illustrator. You don’t even need to set up an account with any of these, just create the picture and when it looks ready just drag it to your desktop and upload it (Windows users might need to right click on the picture and save …

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Permanent link to this article: https://educatoral.com/wordpress/2009/02/16/avatars-2/

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