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Exploring Dragon Naturally Speaking and Classroom Technology

Should Students Use a Pseudonym or Their Real Name When Working Online in the Classroom

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Imagine a world where people don’t judge you based on your race, your gender, the way you look, or the clothes you wear. Instead, you’re judged based on the quality of your ideas and how well you’ve expressed them. That’s one of the potential benefits in having your students use an anonymous pseudonym when writing […]

Handwriting Notes on the iPad 2: Differences between Note Taker HD and Bamboo Paper app

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Editor’s note: We wrote this post back in early July when we were comparing the voice recognition capabilities of Dragon NaturallySpeaking vs handwriting and typing. Unfortunately, we didn’t get around to publishing our thoughts on handwriting on the iPad until now. Since this post was originally written, both NoteTaker HD and Bamboo Paper have both […]

Organize your Life – 10 Reasons to get the Pocket Informant HD iPad App

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Even though we’ve already written about organizing your life by keeping your thoughts in the cloud, there are two reasons why we’re writing another post about Pocket Informant (on the iPad 2): The Pocket Informant HD iPad app is on sale this week (August 17-24) for $9.99 (from $14.99), and, Robert, you really need to […]

Your Students are Instant Messaging / Texting / Chatting using Google Docs in the Classroom

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We love Google Docs. We first started playing around with this classroom technology in August 2008 and we’ve been using it ever since. We’ve even completed the Google Apps for Education Training to work towards becoming a certified trainer. Although we love Google docs, over the past few months, Google has rolled out some changes […]

Two big problems with using WordPress blogging software in the classroom

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We love using technology in the classroom: clickers, data projectors, prezi, netbooks, online literature circles and of course classroom websites and student blogging. And, we love WordPress. It’s our blogging software of choice for the classroom and we use it for all of our professional websites and school projects. If you set up your own […]