…it would have looked like Edmodo. Like Twitter, it’s a microblogging site, but it builds in significant additional functionality to support classroom interactions. Edmodo allows teachers to create groups that students join and then send messages, files, links, and assignments to the entire group. AWESOME !!
Check out Chris Dawson’s review of Edmodo for more info.
This is the cutest little webcam I’ve ever seen, and I want one.

I’m currently preparing to present at NCCE 2009 in Portland this February. My session is regarding the ways in which my students and I use Moodle in our math classroom. It should be a great conference and I hope to see you there!
REGISTER BY JANUARY 16 AND SAVE!
February 17-20, 2009
Oregon Convention Center
Portland Oregon
FEARLESS TECH EDUCATION CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
Find out how school districts are saving money with Open Source Software and how it can improve teaching and learning in the classroom!
Workshops
- Open Source for Schools
- Moodle for n00bs (newbies)
- Web 2.0 Basics: You mean you can do THAT on the internet?
- Create Powerful Learning with Moodle
- Free Internet/Online Tools to Increase Student Achievement
- Multimedia Moodle Marvels
- Managing Moodle for Teaching and Learning
- Web 2.0: All you can eat buffet
- School 2.0: Living Learning and Leading in a flat world
- Making Moodle Matter for Learners and Families
Educators, Administrative Leaders and Technical Staff will experience how Open Source Software increases both access and opportunities for students and teachers.
Concurrent Sessions
- MUG-NW (Moodle User’s Group) Gathering
- Web 2.0 – Voice, video on the web for free! Skype, UStream, Voice Thread
- Moodling in Math <— This is my session
- The IT Admins Guide to Managing Web 2.0 in Schools
- Open Source Smackdown
- Web 2.0 – Collaboration Tools you can’t live without. Delicious and Google docs
- Content Management Systems for Schools (Drupal, Joomla and others)
- Using Moodle: Supporting Administrators and Professional Development
- Opening Doors to Learning with Moodle
SEARCH LEARN and EXPLORE @ www.ncce.org
Qipit is a free online tool that allows you to copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish. Just take a picture of a document with your camera phone and send the picture from your phone or via email to copy@qipit.com. You’ll receive a link to the online PDF copy of your document, all for free. I have other ways to share my whiteboard slides and notes, but this would be a great tool for students.
I found out about Qipit from the article 10 Useful Web Applications You Don’t Know About
Blackle is the energy-saving search engine powered by Google.
How does Blackle save energy? Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. “Image displayed is primarily a function of the user’s color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen.” Roberson et al, 2002
Check it out and consider making Blackle your homepage.
Blackle.com - Saving energy one search at a time
I will be presenting this summer at the Summer Institute in Olympia, WA. During my session, Math & Technology in Today’s Classroom, I’ll show how I use technology such as the electronic whiteboard, student response systems, software, mathcasts and video projects to promote student learning and achievement and for assessment (both formative and summative).
At InterMath: Constructionary, users can obtain a list of constructions in Geometer’s Sketchpad. Clicking on a letter of the alphabet gives a list of constructions for that letter. When you chose a construction, clicking on the numbers shows the steps for that construction. Clicking on “Notes” at each step will give a brief description, and I do mean brief, so newbies may need additional help. This is not a stand-alone tutorial but definitely makes a great resource.

I’m at the OSPI winter conference in Spokane, attending a class that I thought would help me learn more about designing my own online course that I’ll be teaching next year but am disappointed that it is really a sales pitch for THEIR online course offerings. Not what I had in mind. It wasn’t a total loss though since I did pick up a few resources in the process. Here they are, in no particular order:
- www.iacademy.org/waslmath/ is a site that students, teachers and parents can use in preparation for our state-mandated testing in WA state.
- www.gomath.com – love this site! It’s a great math resource.
- http://mathnexus.wwu.edu by the Whatcom and Skagit Math Partnership here in WA state provides resources to increase the effectiveness of secondary school mathematics teachers.
My classroom was featured in a recent article by Tamar Snyder entitled Social Networking: TheirSpace at Edutopia.org.

Please visit the link above to view the full article. You can also read the article in Edutopia Magazine.
Presenting at EduComm this year was a great experience but didn’t really allow time in my schedule to attend any sessions. Well, here is a page of 2007 EduComm Post-Event Conference Material with links to handouts and videos of sessions so now I can watch them. And so can you.