Exploring Dragon Naturally Speaking and Classroom Technology
For the past few years, I’ve hosted this classroom technology website with SiteGround. Some nice features, but when I tried to have 25 students log into our class website (using buddypress), the website just crawled. Now, I’m trying WPEngine. It’s way more expensive for a class website, but on the other hand, it seems to work better with 25 students logging in at the same time.
Today, I migrated this classroom technology site over to WPEngine. We’ll see how things go.
Geotagging is the art and science of adding geographic information to stuff on the net. It’s interesting for teachers because it gives you a way to show your students who is reading their work published on the internet. Or, at least, where they’re from. Things you need to know about IP Addresses – Your Address […]
How does your classroom blog rank in the blogosphere? Where does your class website rank? Is anybody even out there? As teachers, we’re focused on helping our students to polish their work. Some of us set up a classroom blog so that our students have an authentic reason to write: to publish their work online […]
If you publish a classroom blog, are you putting your students at risk? Maybe. The internet is a powerful tool and like cars, glue and the force, it can be used for good and evil. The Risks Here are three reasons why we need to consider how much personal information is intentionally or accidentally revealed. […]
Building self-esteem in our students is something that teachers are often looking for ways to do. We already use blogs to publish student work online… so why not use blogs to build self-esteem as well? Say Something. Nice is an example of how you can use technology to facilitate a classroom activity. I remember reading […]
