If Abraham Lincoln were still living, he would be celebrating his 208th birthday today. Have you ever wondered what Abe might think of our current world? This wonder occurred to me while I was investigating some of the “favorite apps” shared by teachers who have entered this February’s First Friday Giveaway. (There’s still time to…
Have you ever used the random number generator at Random.org? I use it every month to determine the winner of our once-a-month First Friday Giveaway. It’s a great tool, and it’s easy to use. All you do is type in a minimum number, which for our giveaway is 1. And then type in a maximum…
Check out this photo of my fellow blogger, Kim. Bet you smiled! When I ran across this app last week, I couldn’t resist buying it. Dr. Seuss is timely throughout the year. However, with his birthday celebration coming up next week, this app was just too much to resist. There are only two possible hiccups….
I use Facebook, but sometimes it’s a love-hate relationship. I enjoy catching up with friends, but political posts and excessive crabbiness can drive me crazy. Crazy! I have yet to really get sucked into Twitter. In my mind, Twitter is like another Facebook only with lots of hashtags. Pandora? Google Play? Spotify? *shrug* But my…
I must admit to you that I stare at my smartphone way too much. It’s almost automatic to grab it and check Facebook or to look at Pinterest or read my emails. And every once in a while, I think that it’s time for me to back off. I don’t need to spend my life…
Not long ago, several teachers chimed in when we featured an overhead projector on our Facebook site. Who knew (clearly not me!) that the military used this handy projector before it was introduced into the classrooms in the early 1960s. Here’s something else I didn’t know—the projector is still being used in classrooms across the…
They changed Facebook again? Why is my menu now on the left? Is yours on the left yet or is it just me? Also, we’ve changed to Google Docs here at work, and more than one coworker has caught me muttering at my computer while gesturing wildly with my morning cup of chai. We can…
Do you like ukulele music? No, you love it; that’s why you moved to Hawaii. I think my love for the ukulele is born out of the opening chords of “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” by Hal David and Burt Bacharach, sung by B. J. Thomas for the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance…
Sometimes I worry that if I go to the beach, some muscle-bound guy carrying the latest awesome smartphone and a sleek new tablet PC is going to kick sand in my face. In a voice that sounds like it was carved from granite by union laborers in mud-caked overalls, he would say, “What’s the matter?…
Shortly before I set about writing today’s blog post, I came across several articles on the Internet about technology in the classroom, a favorite topic of mine. There was a particular angle to all of these articles (which came from three very different sources), and that was high-speed Internet access in our schools. We may…