Shooting the Schlieffen Plan
In the course of teaching history/Social Studies, it seems that nearly every year I have to teach the kids how World War I got started and how the Schlieffen Plan kicked in. It’s a fairly complex...
View ArticleGetting it online
I’ve been having the kids in my Applying Information and Communication Technology 2 15 F class (gotta love the short, snappy course name!) build websites as one of the their projects. They’ve been...
View ArticleQuickly Publishing to the Web
Via Dogtrax’ blog comes news of this rather incredible web publishing tool. If you’ve ever looked for a way to quickly and easily get a document onto the web without all the tedious mucking about with...
View ArticleI love Opera!
Though kind of partial to Firefox, I really don’t pay a lot of attention to whatever the latest web browser version is. For most things you do it doesn’t really matter. However, Opera has just released...
View ArticleKidblog.org
For one of my classes I try to have the kids blog regularly. It’s a hard thing to do from a technical point of view. There are very few inexpensive or free sites where I can have the students write and...
View ArticleSometimes it works out well
This year I was assigned a computer media course to teach which intimidated me since I really don’t know that much about that stuff. Clearly, I learned at least as much as the kids did. I also learned...
View ArticleI was Canadian – Part 4
Our interviews with famous dead Canadians are pretty much wrapped up now. I learned a few things in the process. If you’re going to alter people’s voices to make girls sound like guys and guys sound...
View Article
