Within the last year the Mimio has emerged on the Purchasing Conference list as a viable option in the classroom. This was a hard sell for me. There are obvious portability advantages, but with SMART already having established a presence in our board, I was hesitant to endorse it widely, without perpetuating two systems, and …
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Project-Based VS Job-Embedded Learning
We have some “kits” making the rounds in schools around the board. The intent of these are admirable. Too often we knee-jerk to what we know, or what has come before, and has been “tested” and “adopted”. This leads to tunnel vision when decisions are made about properly instrumenting a classroom. The worst example of …
Boxee in the Classroom
I cancelled cable a few weeks ago. Beyond the “there is so little on TV anymore” statement that had been rattling around my head for a while, the other deciding factor was an inability to “catch” any of the shows I could be bothered trying to watch at their given broadcast time. Enter the internet: …