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Ziploc Equals iPad Rain Protection
I use GameChanger to score the softball games on the iPad and it does a great job, covering pretty much every eventuality on the field (and there are a lot) and crunching all of the numbers for us....
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Student Survey Results on the English 4 Blended Classroom Experiment
As many of you know, I experimented with a blended classroom during the end of 3rd and most of 4th quarter in my college English 4 class. Initially, we met for three days and didn’t meet for three days...
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Colleen Ritzer and Twitter
As I’m sure most if not all of you know, a local teacher was killed, allegedly by one of her students. Few real details beyond the basics have come out but a fuzzy picture of Colleen Ritzer is...
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The Take-Where-You-Want Test: The Results of a Blended Testing Experiment
I was testing my English classes the Tuesday before Thanksgiving but had a meeting off campus that would cause me to miss two of the three tests. I didn’t necessarily want to ask teachers to cover the...
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Stepping Away From the Stage (Part 2)
My Latin 3 class is beginning with the subjunctive. We had begun our verb review just prior to midterms, so it seemed worthwhile to continue / reiterate the verb review prior to introducing the new...
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Long(ish) Term Success from the Blended Experiment?
Was at senior show (kind of a senior skit show / comedy show whose humor varies year to year; not bad this year) tonight and saw an alum from last year when I piloted the blended class (albeit with a...
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The Ambiguity of Twitter (140 Characters = No Context)
I have said and written often how much I like Twitter for gathering information: it all comes to one place and I can tailor it (follow / unfollow) however I want. Sure, it can be hard to tame at times...
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The Case for Restoration or The Cure for Device / App Overload
I’ve officially accumulated enough devices that I needed to make some changes (worse problems to have, I realize). The hoarder in me doesn’t like to get rid of things but rather to reappropriate them...
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Find my iPhone: Every Now and Then….
Find my iPhone (the app) is hardly perfect. It can be disabled by someone with your phone through the settings (especially if you don’t have a passcode on your phone); it doesn’t work if the phone is...
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Samsung’s New Ad Pokes Fun at Apple’s Battery Life
Don’t want a Samsung Galaxy but have to admire their ad (campaign). This one made me chuckle. (from here via @applenws) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzMUTrTYD9s
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The Power of Passive Thinking
Why is it that we have our best ideas in the shower? Simple. It’s one of the few times when our brain is allowed to wander on its own. There is no focus, there are no distractions. Off it goes and it...
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The Take-Where-You-Want Test: The Results of a Blended Testing Experiment
I was testing my English classes the Tuesday before Thanksgiving but had a meeting off campus that would cause me to miss two of the three tests. I didn’t necessarily want to ask teachers to cover the...
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Discipline Survey (Demerits)
A few months ago, the issue of our discipline system came up at a faculty meeting, specifically tardies and the demerits system to address tardies. I decided to poll my students about tardies and...
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Regression? (Or Why I Haven’t Written As Much)
As my technology use develops, I find myself, well, returning to simpler times. I use whiteboard markers (more). I try to minimize my add-ons / peripherals / accessories. It’s all symptomatic of that...
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An iPad (Pro) Typing Question?
A question out there for anyone listening. When I type expressions that involve a period (e.g. E.g.), as you can see in the parenthetical there, the letter after the g. Is (again) automatically...
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Low-Tech Fun: Senior Project on GoogleMaps
No, I have not hacked the NSA, nor am I running my own double-top-secret operation. I teach a sibling of a former student this year, and I mentioned to her that I noticed an addition going on the...
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Classical Play Project Redux / 2017 – Increasing Productivity
The dynamic in this year’s class is very different from last year’s, largely because of size. We went from 22 in the class last year to 7 in this class this year (a bit embarrassing to admit, I agree,...
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