Technology

There is no question that the rest of the world will continue to forge ahead with adopting new technology and implementing new marketing and communication strategies well before those of us in the education world will. However, I have spent some time recently thinking and Twittering with friends and colleagues (@steveritchie @ernestkoe @alexragone @AdmissionsQuest ) [...]

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My wife and I stopped getting the daily paper about two years ago. The Sunday paper went away about six months later and while a few magazine subscriptions remain active, I for one will be opting out of renewing many of them as they begin to expire. It seems like many others out there, my [...]

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A colleague recently asked me how I set up the WA Mash Twitter account so that it allowed for students to be able to post to that account. While I feel strongly that Twitter needs to find a way to set up groups, waiting for that to happen may have you waiting a long time. [...]

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Lately, most of my time has been spent working with my creative writing students on the development of a new online magazine called “WA Mash” (Worcester Academy Mashup) and in short, it has re-energized my teaching practice. In 1996 I began my first year of teaching and was given as part of my teaching load, [...]

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Ok so this post is coming to you from my iPod Touch and the new Wordpress app. I can add multiple blog accounts so my personal blog and WA Mash are both available.
It’s very, very nice.

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We are conducting technology professional development a little differently at our school this year. A few years back we borrowed the idea of “Tech in 20″ sessions, small, 20 minute professional development sessions that hit upon concrete, real hands on resources that teachers can use right after they leave. Our Director of Academic Technology, David [...]

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I want to thank Peter Baron of Admissions Quest for asking me to speak with him on the Boarding School Podcast about my work on WA Mash. Part of the reason I have been far to busy to post here on my regular blog is because much of my energy has been devoted to getting [...]

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So I am getting ready to start a new school year and I think I finally landed on a new Wordpress theme. Chris Pirillo whom many of you may remember from his days on TechTV has released a pretty fantastic theme called “WicketPixie” that does a great job integrated social media. I will spend the [...]

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Here is a recap of some great posts on education, technology, creativity and other interesting ideas floating out in the blogosphere.
Philosophy of Education
Technology in the classroom can also increase the productivity of the teacher and make instruction flow much smoother! For productivity, the teacher can use technology to communicate with students, parents, other teachers, …
Jessica [...]

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