Cooked On Education

Nuggets from NECC 2008 (1)
Wes Fryer’s notes from a panel he participated in at NECC. He says there will be a podcast of this soon. It looks like there was some great discussion here.
(tags: necc2008 literacy learning education ProfessionalDevelopment)

How to Add a Favicon in Wordpress Blog
A quick tutorial for adding a favicon to [...]

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Welcome (Google Almanac)
This is a great resource with information that was presented at this year’s GTA. Included are an overview of each google service that was covered, teaching and learning ideas and even a featured lesson. Thanks to Michael Richards for the link.
(tags: google resources web2.0 GoogleTeacherAcademy 2008)

Live from I-35: Moving at the [...]

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The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDb
An extensive list of open source applications.
(tags: opensource applications list software free)

Google Custom Search Engine - Site search and more
This lets you pre-select the web sites that Google searches, filtering out the junk. This is a great way [...]

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Recently on the GenerationYes blog, Sylvia Martinez wrote a post titled Six Degrees of Professional Development. In the post, Martinez identifies six different types of professional development (academic coursework, workshops/sessions, formal research, informal, classroom embedded, action research). The really interesting part is she suggests mixing these styles of PD together. Here is the [...]

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Green Lights: Pick the Right Compact Fluorescent for Your Room
Article that gives advice on which CFL to pick for specific rooms in your home.
(tags: lifehacks lighting cfl home)

6 degrees of professional development
Some interesting ideas on mixing up professional development a bit
(tags: blog education ProfessionalDevelopment)

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Thanks to a tweet from Will Richardson, I now have a new site to play with and use with students. Wordle is quick and easy site to create word clouds from any text or from your delicious tags. From their site:
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. [...]

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As I previously mentioned here, my school is in session all summer long. One of the pains joys of working in a correctional facility is being required to take refresher safety trainings each year. This first week of the summer session is our week for this training. So far we have covered [...]

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Ahhhh, summer. School’s out and its time for the teacher to relax a bit, learn something new, and recharge the creative batteries. Except in my case school isn’t entirely out.
Summer is an interesting time at my school. Because my students are all incarcerated, we don’t shut down for the warm months. [...]

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Today, my little blog achieved the 1000 hit milestone. Not bad for something that has only been in existence since the middle of February and is only published randomly and from time to time. Here are a couple of thoughts about my experience so far:

I have not posted nearly as much as I [...]

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This week, Jeff and Dan discuss co-teaching and team teaching. They also found some guy named Mark Spahr to sit in on the recording session. Now, I am rarely critical of anything that these guys do, but I am not sure that letting him record with them was the smartest thing they have [...]

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