Sustainably Digital

I realized earlier this week that I’ve figured out several workarounds for when I’m working on my school computer. With filtration that would have Mao crying foul mixed with a lack of administrative access to install programs or change settings, what works at home doesn’t at school. The setup PC: running Windows XP. Internets: Filtered. [...]

The NEA recently posted an article about teachers who have been unknowingly taped digitally recorded by their students who then posted the videos online. The article mentions some cases where teachers are clearly acting inappropriately. However, it also mentions a few cases in which the video clip was taken out of context or edited in [...]

In addition to my interesting finds series, I’m starting this series which will include a video of something I found compelling, awesome, or interesting each week. They may be videos that are educationally useful or they may just be too awesome to not share with the world. This first video’s narration is in Japanese, and [...]

While I’m not sharing these with my students anymore (yahoo for summer!), I’m still finding good stuff that I’m tucking away in my personal files. Here’s a sampling of sites that made me SSOL (say “sweet!” out loud): The Big Picture Part of the Boston Globe’s online space, The Big Picture posts amazing high quality [...]

I’ve taken to adding in “fun facts” to my class. I’m not sure if I got this idea from Dan Meyer in the first place, or if I stumbled upon it independently and then had my habit reinforced by his enthusiasm for a little fun unbound from the “standard” curriculum. They Pro-crast-i-na-tion: I’ve seen all [...]