Blog Juice for Educational Technology

CNN Student News is a great resource for teachers to cover current events. It is a 10 minute, commercial free newscast covering the major news stories from the previous day. This newscast is geared for students. It is broadcast each day, Monday through Friday, at 3:12 am on the CNN Headline News channel.
We have been […]

Many of you know that I promote Wikipedia as a useful resource for staff and students. Wikipedia is the largest enclyclopedia in electronic, online or print form.
There are several advantages to using Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org) in the classroom.
1) It is available anywhere you have an Internet connection. You are not limited to a few […]

As you know probably know, you can now set up an Intel based Macintosh computer so that it will start up in either Mac OS X or Windows XP. Now when you are wondering if you should purchase a Dell, Gateway, HP or other computer to run Windows XP, you can add Intel based Macintosh […]

Yesterday Apple Computer announced they had released a free beta download of “Boot Camp.” This software allows you to install Windows XP on an Intel based Macintosh.

In our district we already have two iMac computers that are set up to dual boot into Mac OS 10.4 or Windows XP. You make the choice during startup.

There […]

I am sure that you have heard the following quotes. These are often used in presentations to make the point that many educators are not using technology to improve their instruction or the learning that takes place in their classroom.
"We need to educate our children for their future, not our past."
A.C. Clark

It is […]

This was a question posted to a national technology listserv and my response to that listserv.
>Can anyone assist me in finding resources and/or presentors
>that deals with internet safety for kids?
Most of the schools in North Dakota use i-SAFE and we are very pleased with it. Our state has regional technology support staff through an […]

The destruction and suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina is on everyone’s mind.
I did my graduate work in Louisianna at NSULA (Northewestern State University
of LA) so this tragedy has been more upsetting to me than if I hadn’t been to
New Orleans and didn’t know people from that area.
I have been trying …

The destruction and suffering caused by Hurricane Katrina is on everyone’s mind.
I did my graduate work in Louisianna at NSULA (Northewestern State University
of LA) so this tragedy has been more upsetting to me than if I hadn’t been to
New Orleans and didn’t know people from that area.
I have been trying to provide our teachers with […]

This is a sample link to Minot Public Schools Blog

While at NECC I stopped by the ESRI booth as one of my goals for the past several years has been to put their GIS (Geographic Information System) product ArcView to use. We have sent several classroom teachers and even one of our tech staff to training but have never …

While at NECC I stopped by the ESRI booth as one of my goals for the past several years has been to put their GIS (Geographic Information System) product ArcView to use. We have sent several classroom teachers and even one of our tech staff to training but have never gotten to the point of […]

During the past several weeks I have been teaching a graduate level course for elementary and middle school teachers in mathematics and technolgy at our local univeristy, Minot State U.
As we have covered digital photography I have tried to make it relevant to mathematics. We did this by taking pictures of geometric shapes, etc. (Actually […]

Tuesday afternoon/evening at NECC
The afternoon started out great, visiting during lunch with Bernie Dodge about his new WebQuest creation tool, QuestGarden.
After that it was off to the vendors, where there was a ton of new products, updates to exisiting products, and just good information. Too much to absorb at one time. I will have a […]