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Learning Microsoft Office in K-5 is Like Taking Latin

by Mark October 16, 2011 instruction

They are already being usurped by wikis, blogs, google docs, Wordpress, google wave-like things, all if which provide the basic functionality, but allow multiple people to edit a document simultaneously and keeping only one copy prevents the ridiculous organizational head-ache of making sure everyone edits the latest copy. … They have Google Sites which allows multiple team members to edit a webpage with almost the same functionality as PowerPoint, and it is published and can allow (though we don’t allow this) for comments and global interaction.

"Blackboard is Safe" is a False Premise

by Mark October 18, 2010 technology

Blackboard costs a great deal of money, models bad behavior by forcing students to divulge private information in the course of their work and fails to be a more significant barrier to prevent children accidentally viewing porn.

We are Vermeer

by Mark March 7, 2010 classroom_management

Anyone who communicates in this modern world is an artist. You are either a good artist or a bad artist, but an artist you are–like it or not. We are all artists, and are students who are publishing are artists. To acknowledge this, in our pursuit of education and technology publishing, will help everyone.

Online Work-Flow For School Newspaper Defined

by Mark December 17, 2009 classroom_culture

The 4th and 5th grades are joining forces to publish a school newspaper. They need an online workflow which is backed-up, feature-rich and future-proof. This outline of our plans is a starting point.