Teaching a course to seventh graders and adults has reminded me of a painful fact of life; my middle-aged eyes (and those of many of my peers) just aren’t what they used to be.  Even with a projector and large screen, from the back of the classroom my computer display looks pretty small.  After wincing [...]

This post, the final of a three-part series, will focus on one of the most powerful teaching-learning tools at our disposal: DyKnow.  Although technically DyKnow isn’t new (we’ve been piloting it for the past two years), with our 1:1 initiative underway we can finally leverage its full potential in the classroom.  For those unfamiliar with [...]

With the start of school just around the corner, I wanted to share some of the recent additions we’ve made to our technology tool-kit.  In my last post I briefly highlighted iFolder, our new personal backup and remote access solution.  Today I’d like to focus on Interact, an open source (i.e. free) learning community platform [...]