Archives for “Schools and Technology”
EdBlogger Praxis: Whittier School contemplates use of blogs for NSF project. Al Delgado’s school in Chicago is involved with an NSF project looking at using geographical information systems with his elementary students. The official title is… “Designing Learning Environments for Teaching Scientific Argumentation and Mathematical Reasoning with Geographic Data.” A description of the project can [...]
Cyprien Lomas Discover SubEthaEdit (formerly Hydra) One of the folks I met this weekend at edBlogger was Cyprien Lomas. He a Research Associate with Skylight: The Science Centre for Learning and Teaching at the Faculty of Science at University of British Columbia. Cyprien was one of the folks using SubEthaEdit to take collaborative notes during [...]
Tuttle SVC: November 13, 2003 Archives Tom Hoffman points today to SchoolTool, an open souce school administration software project.
At Lewis Elementary we are in the process of updating our computer lab. We have a lab of 16 iMacs that we are moving to OS X. We also plan to set up a server so that our we can offer a home folder for each of our students, accessable from any computer in the [...]
oss4lib : Open Source Systems for Libraries In addition to work on the computer lab and updating our iMacs to OS X, we are beginning to talk about automating our library. Our district library supervisor shared with us the costs associated with using the Dynix system that is the current school district solution. Very expensive… [...]
http://lewiselementary.org I have been working on a web page for Lewis Elementary School. I have just recently started working there as the principal. Lewis is located in Portland, Oregon, and is part of Portland Public Schools. I am using Movable Type to run the site, but for the most part it will not be a [...]
Today I had the opportunity to visit with Tom Hoffman and some of the faculty he works with at Fortes Elementary and Feinstein High School in Providence, RI. It has been a busy day, full of visits to classrooms and discussions about technology use with assessment. Fortes has a facinating museum program and a very [...]
Oregon Writing Project While visiting a school today I saw the flyer for the upcoming Oregon Writing Project summer session at the University of Oregon — TEACHING WRITING IN THE INTERNET ERA… Love the title… The work of folks like Joe Luft, Pat Delaney, Will Richardson, Al Delgado and others gives one an idea of [...]
I had the opportunity over the weekend to meet several folks who I have known from their work on the web, but never had the opportunity to meet. Will Richardson and Pat Delaney are two educators doing exceptional work that utilizes the web as a tool for student writing and the sharing of ideas. Had [...]
Yesterday I visited Mike Scott’s 3rd grade classroom at Buckman. Mike and his students have been learning about bridges. Yesterday the students tested their bridge designs. Captured one of those tests with my Canon S45…. Click the image to view a short Quicktime clip…
Where the Girls Aren’t Anyone who has ever tried to pry a girl offline knows that girls like computers. They just don’t understand how they work. Computer science, the mathematics-based study of programming, is so unpopular among girls that even the most rigorous girls’ schools rarely find enough students to fill a class. Tech-minded teachers [...]
New York Times: Professors Vie With Web for Class’s Attention Universities are rushing toward a wireless future, installing networks that let students and the faculty surf the Internet from laptop computers in the classroom, in the library or by those ponds that always seem to show up on the cover of the campus brochure. But [...]
