We run several classroom blogs and professional sites, including this blog on using educational technology in the classroom. Mostly we use WordPress, but lately we’ve been experimenting with bulleting boards (phpBB) for our online literature circles. You can only go so far with free accounts, whether they’re with Blogger, WordPress.com, Edublogs, or Wikispaces. Eventually, you […]
Make Money Online in the Classroom
If you’ve spent any time on the internet, you’ve already been indoctrinated into the world of Making Money Online. Just do a search using one of the big 3 search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft), and you’ll see ads beside your results. When we were growing up, we made money as teens by mowing the […]
Twitter in the Classroom
At the end of June, our Grade 8 Language Arts (English) class experimented with using Twitter in the classroom. What is Twitter? Why use Twitter in the classroom? Examining Twitter in the classroom to see how social media tools are changing the way the world communicates. Using Twitter in the Classroom as a collaboration tool […]
Hide Google Ads based on Geographic Location (Country or City)
We’re thinking about starting an entrepreneurial (Make Money Online) extra-curricular computer club at school: applying critical reading, writing and thinking skills while trying our hand at online fundraising for our school. We’ll probably start with making niche-websites that are monetized by contextual ads (i.e. Google Adsense). Google has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to […]
Classroom Technology – Where does the funding come from?
Classroom technology is great… but where do we get the money to fund the educational technology? I would like to have a class set of laptops for my Grade 7 and 8 students to use: 4 Reasons why I would like to have a class set of laptops How much will a class set of […]
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