http://www.technologyineducation.org Changing education, by sharing our ideas one at a time... Thu, 22 May 2008 19:39:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have found an interesting pattern recently, and I wonder if this is simply my experience, or a more broad common experience. I find several types of teachers / administrators to be in the educational environment. Teaching from the Gut - There seem to be many teachers out there that have ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=15 In my experience, I have noticed a pattern. I believe it to be fairly consistent across the educational landscape of the United States, and I share it here for either gentle confirmation, or violent damnation. Of all the teachers I have met I believe I can loosely group them into ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=14 Please accept my humble apology. Starting in February, there were a cacophany of issues at the online school I worked for that eventually, and sadly, let to the organization's demise. I have not posted in quite some time, because I have been working feverishly to find gainful employment. While I ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=13 I recently stumbled across some tools that seems like they would produce a heretofore difficult service to classroom teachers & their students. No matter what you call them; Mind-Maps, Concept Maps, or Graphic Organizers concept mapping can be a great instructional tool. Whether planning a series of science experiments, or ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=12 In the time that I have been involved with technology (I still remember my first Trash 80 [TRS-80] in fifth grade and how cool it they were with their 5 1/4 floppies) and more recently as a teacher, I have found a rather frustrating pattern. It seems to me that ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=10 SUSE 10.1-10.3 At the school where I currently serve, we use iterations of SUSE v 10 (10.1-10.3) on 8 of or 9 our servers (one of our technologies requires us to maintain a Win 2003 Server), and several of our individual use desktops. In fact, at this point, for individual users, ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=9 For reasons of which I am still not completely aware, Open Source software has a hard time catching on in education. The bullet points are obvious: high-powered, stable applications; astonishing compatibility (*nix tools have to be flexible to survive); and most of the software titles are free or incredibly inexpensive. ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=5 As the first post to this site, I think is is important to explain why this site exists. A very wise person once said: "The only book [or in this case blog] that should ever be written is one that flows up from the heart, forced out by the inward ... http://www.technologyineducation.org/?p=3