Posted on November 18th, 2008 by kschaefer
He has written about this restructuring better then anyone I have read. Many times, I read articles from experts who tell of lofty ideas or ways to do things in a classroom that are not as feasible as they seem or still keep the teacher as the person with the knowledge or information key. Alan, [...]
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Posted on November 13th, 2008 by kschaefer
I have not used Twitter for awhile but decided to turn on Twitterific which lists the tweets of the folks I follow. I only follow a few and one is a long Apple Engineer Francis Shepherd. He tweeted : Just heard a live presentation by Richard Miller, Rutgers University on the Future is Now http://tinyurl.com/2n2ge2 [...]
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Posted on November 12th, 2008 by kschaefer
Reading about the new features in version 10 of FirstClass I like what I see and then I get to this:
Read the full article at: http://www.kannoncom.com/FirstClassRoadmap2008 and make sure you see the images of the iPhone client. Nice
Enhanced Sync Support for Mobile Devices: In FirstClass 10 we will greatly enhance our “Sync” support with the [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by kschaefer
All students now have FirstClass accounts. Here is a cool student and a cool demonstration of how digital tools can change the learning platform.
Over the weekend some discussions were seemingly lost inside of a Workspace that a student had created for 7th grade History class. Because I was asked to assist, I logged in as [...]
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Posted on November 10th, 2008 by kschaefer
I am ready to roll out the Lower School iPod Learning Lab after getting the TRON-X for iPod case and the 15 unit Parasync iPod dock both are from Parat Solutions. I am excited to get these in the hands of our teachers and students. It has taken longer then I had hoped to get [...]
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