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Using Clickers in the Classroom

Mr Kuroneko — Fri, 28 May 2010 00:04:06 +0000

Our school is fortunate enough to have access to interactive whiteboards (SMARTboards), SMART airliner tablets, and a class set of clickers. If we were going to invest our own personal money into our classroom technology, we would definetely get a class set of clickers over the airliner tablet or interactive whiteboard. No contest. Here’s why. What are [...]

Integrating Technology into your Language Arts Public Speaking Lesson

Mr Kuroneko — Sun, 09 May 2010 18:33:13 +0000

We’ve been teaching our speech unit to Grade 7 and 8 students for several years, but this is the first year we’ve really had an opportunity to integrate different types of technologies into our English lesson. Let’s be honest. Most students hate doing speeches. They don’t like spending the time to write the speech, revise their [...]

Interactive whiteboards and concept mapping software for the classroom

Mr Kuroneko — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 03:45:22 +0000

It’s the long weekend and term 2 report cards are done (for the most part.) We’re moving our class websites to another server (yet again), but that’s for an upcoming post. One of the coolest things we did this past term was use graphic organizer software (i.e. concept mapping software) with a SMART board. Where to get [...]

WordPress MU and pSek Technical Support

Mr Kuroneko — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:54:00 +0000

We just signed up with a $10 per month business plan with pSek to host our WordPress MU sites and so far, we’ve been impressed with their technical support. Over the past two weeks, we’ve placed a few support tickets to help us get our WordPress site up and running. (We set the priorities in the [...]

Classroom Blogs, Bluehost CPU Throttling and pSek Webhosting

Mr Kuroneko — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:58:15 +0000

There are lots of places you can set up a free classroom blog: edublogs, wordpress, and wikispaces. Of course, “free” always comes at a price and there are always limitations with using these free services. In the end, we decided to run the (free) open-source WordPress software off of our own webhost space to unleash the full potential [...]