This is by far the coolest thing I've done on the internet...

I created my video podcast for my 8th grade math class. Those students are currently working on an assignment where they have to design their "dream bedroom" and create a scale drawing along with a written description of thier dream room. Unfortunately, being that my students are vitrual learners, I don't have the opportunity to work with them on a daily basis. I created this video podcast to show them examples of how to…

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I have subscribed to multiple podcasts over the past month or so. I actually got in to the podcasts after a recent update to the software for my Zune mp3 player. I bought my Zune last year when they first came out. Recently they updated the device and also their marketplace software. As part of the update, they began offering podcasts, much like iTunes does.

After spending come time perusing the different options, I subscribed to about 5…

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For the assignments this week, I created acounts on del.icio.us and flickr.com. Overall, these were pretty easy to do.



You can view my del.icio.us page here, where you'll find links about mathematics education, racing, and Pittsburgh sports. The nice thing about having the del.icio.us account now is that I can easily view my favorite links, even though I am usual on 2 to 3 different computers daily. Now that I have tagging buttons added to my… Continue

I know... a lot of Techno-firsts for me in the past week or so!

I ventured on to Wikipedia and began by searching for a subject that is near and dear to my heart outside of teaching, dirt track racing! I began by reading the current wiki on dirt track racing, and felt that it was a pretty reasonable article. I did notice though that the information the was presented seemed to have a…

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I’ve had my first experience with using RSS feeds this week, and now I’m wondering why it’s taken an assignment for a class for me to start using this technology! To give a little background for anyone that might read this that isn’t in the class I’m currently taking, I’m currently signed up for a class at Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania where we are learning how to use…

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