Voting is open on my Christmas music site: http://christmas.justinreeve.com Vote for your fave songs and I’ll record the winners in December #
RT @edciu10: Interesting article about terms of use and Google http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9902548-46.html #
Educational Jargon Generator: http://www.sciencegeek.net/lingo.html Amaze your friends with your edu-techno-babble. #
Reading “Avoiding the 5 Most Common Mistakes in Using Blogs with Students”: [...]

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RT @UtahGov: check out all the latest Twitter activity from Weber School District at http://bit.ly/3KNOmD #
RT @csessums @djmath Teaching is not rocket science.It is, in fact, far more complex and demanding work than rocket science. R. Elmore, HGSE #
50 Google Charts Tricks for Your Next Classroom Presentation http://bit.ly/2Iop6t via http://www.diigo.com/~riptide via @dmantz7 @RiptideF #
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Google Go: http://golang.org/ Google’s new experimental programming language. #
Anyone still need a Google Wave invite? DM me with your email. #
KnowledgeTree http://www.knowledgetree.com looks like a nice document sharing web app (via @bludlow) #

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50 Google Charts Tricks for Your Next Classroom Presentation http://bit.ly/2Iop6t via http://www.diigo.com/~riptide via @dmantz7 @RiptideF #
Partnership between LinkedIn and Twitter: http://bit.ly/2tpxNf #
RT @dmp_gctc: Build a Better WordPress Blog ~ 16 WordPress Sites -… http://bit.ly/BJWtS #

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Google recently launched their Google Squared service. In their own words, “Google Squared takes a category and creates a starter ’square’ of information, automatically fetching and organizing facts from across the web.”
Do I see myself using Google Squared very often? Probably not. But can it be useful in some circumstances? Definitely. It requires a different [...]

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The Moodle logs contain some great data on user activity. Awhile ago, I put a page detailing some statistics on WSD Online, our own Moodle server. You can find that page here: http://www.weber.k12.ut.us/index.php?page=moodle-statistics
Here’s a few MySQL queries you can use on your own Moodle server to get some statistics on the most popular activities, the [...]

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I’ve noticed a few differences in how our teachers and students use Moodle. The details may vary, but in general a teacher will log in, maybe upload a PowerPoint document, and if they’re adventurous they’ll set up an online quiz, and possibly a forum.
A student, on the other hand, logs in, and explores everything. One [...]

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Last month, in the first week of August, the Weber School District Technical Services Department hosted the second annual BrainBlast conference. BrainBlast is a time of year when we techs get to feel like rock stars, and the whole thing was a resounding success. The keynote speakers were excellent, the techs were responsive, Vinnie’s antics [...]

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I received an email from one of our teachers a few days ago, expressing concerns over someone outside our district who linked to her blog. This isn’t the first time I’ve received an email like this, so with her permission, I’m posting her email here, followed by my long-winded reply with more information than she [...]

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A magnitude 6.1 earthquake this morning off the coast of Vancouver Island was not felt on land, despite being the biggest yet in a swarm of quakes that have hit the region this week. This latest earthquake was reported at 5:37 this morning, centred 152 kilometres west-southwest of Port Hardy and about 10-kilometres below the [...]

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