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Don’t “unplug” your students

Came across this post from a technology teacher in Cedar Park, Texas.

Much of what she talks about is the result of a conference she returned from in Austin a couple weeks ago.  A conference that I, along with a few thousand other technology teachers, was also at.  I even got talked into presenting a couple of sessions.  One on Python and one on Alice.

Her point, and one I definitely agree with, is that as teachers we don’t embrace technology when it can be used to enhance the education of our students.  I teach computer science so we’re on the computers most every day.  But there are subjects that are not forced to use technology, and many times they don’t.  And that’s unfortunate.  Students are online pretty much 24/7.  Even when they’re sitting in class and supposed to be paying attention to us they have their cell phones in their pockets receiving text message from friends.

First post with MarsEdit

If you read the post up from this you’ll see that I just tried out Qumana and wasn’t all that happy with it. It was nice to be able to blog without logging into WordPress, but it had a couple of deal breakers for me.

Unfortunately none of the free solutions I’ve come across have looked to do what I wanted. So it’s off to try a few of the free demos. The first one I’m looking at is MarsEdit.

First look at Qumana

Trying something new again.  The WordPress iPhone app that I posted about a few days ago was nice, but it doens’t work well for longer posts.  Nothing against the app.  But  I can type pretty quickly and it’s frustrating to have to slow down for the little keyboard.  Fortunately I have my MacBook with me pretty much 24/7 so I’m giving an offline editor a try.

The one I’m trying right now is a free one called Qumana.  It looks like it’s a way to get bloggers to use their ad network, but it doesn’t seem that you have to.