Entries from February 2008

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Blog Safety

You can find a lot of blog safety guidelines with a quick google search.   Here’s what I use:
Student and Parent Blog & Wiki Contract
Blog Safety Rules
I also show the students the following video.
Download Video: Posted by mjhasley at TeacherTube.com.
The only thing I don’t like about it is that it negatively portrays the janitorial staff (which the kids [...]

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

My Bag of Tricks

After almost two years of blogging (one with students) I’ve run across some fantastic add-ons for my blog. I thought I’d list the ones that I really like for those teachers just getting started.
Slideshare
Share powerpoints online and embed them into your blog (works just like youtube)
Google Docs
Create and share documents, spreedsheets, etc.
Box.net
Upload documents and [...]

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Valentine’s Day Presentation

I posted my infamous Biology of Love lecture on slideshare a couple of months ago and since then it’s been downloaded over 100 times!  The success has inspired me to update the lecture for 2008.  Here is the updated 2nd version.
*10/3/08 Update – The 2nd version has been downloaded 859 times!!!  Wow!  I sure hope all the [...]