So I've been thinking a lot about how the Internet represents two opposite poles in terms of nurturing creativity. On the one hand, there's the side that absolutely stifles it. Take the recent (and not so recent) debates on healthcare reform, among other policy debates regarding pressing matters. One side comes up with an idea, not even a fully-fleshed out idea. We don't even know any of the details before the other side immediately declares it a failure and we all hear about how it will never w… Continue

Right now, I subscribe to the following podcasts:
1. Stephen Fry's Podgrams (anyone ever see "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"? so awesome)
2. Antsmarching.org (DMB fan podcast)
3. Grammar Girl
4. The Ricky Gervais Podcast (fab series)
5. University Podcasting (NDSU)
6. The Writer's Almanac (Garrison K)
7. Bill Moyer's Journal (PBS)

From the iTunesU podcast section, I subscribe to:
1. Analyzing Pride and Prejudice (DePaul Univ)
2. English Romanticism (UC Davi… Continue

I suggested my students should use Googlepresentations because I am so tired of the whole access run-around when they create Powerpoint presentations -- never where you want them. I've also suggested Glogster -- which I love, but I don't love that when they go there, they also see whatever anyone else has done there and it's not always so appropriate... along the lines of YouTube: we have access to show clips from there now but we're supposed to navigate there and pull up the clip first, before… Continue

I read this in my RSS feed from Free Technology for Teachers blog and it reminded me to blog it here :)

"Earlier this week Google announced an enhancement to Google Reader that allows you to subscribe to updates to any website regardless of whether or not that site offers an RSS feed.
Here is the link to the article: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/01/create-rss-feed-for-any-website.html… Continue

Well, I had talked about it long enough and finally decided to just dive in and create my first Wiki. I looked at a few different Wiki makers and decided on Wikispaces. I liked it because it seemed easiest to use and I could get a free educators account so that there were no dumb ads on the site.
I love it! I made a site that is called Spring Lake Park High School Library, but it is just the book video project right now. I am having a hard time figuring out a couple things, mostly having to… Continue