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Thing 7a…Fighting the current? Or going with the flow?
Why do I feel like a salmon swimming upstream? Wiki’s are now obsolete? Etherpad Screencast OK, Wiki’s are old news, at least according to the developers of Etherpad. What about Diigo that was so cool...
View ArticleThing 8…Defintions
Unlike physics or chemistry, biology is a science based in words. One of the first assignments every fall in Honors Bio is to memorize a list of about 125 Greek and Latin vocabulary roots. These are...
View ArticleThing 8 – Stretch “Darwinism”
I purposely chose what I believed would be a controversial Wikipedia entry, “Darwinisim” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinism. Sure enough, there is a very long history of discussion and continual...
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Thing 10…Working With Thieves
I work with thieves. I mean that in a good way. For many years, I have worked with some very creative and supportive colleagues in the science department, and we have no qualms about stealing – and...
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Thing 11…Flickers on Flickr
Could anything be more obvious than to search for pictures of flickers? The Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) behaves differently from most other woodpeckers. It can often be found sitting on the...
View ArticleThing 13…the Survival of Fryeburg Academy
I’m co-chair of one of the committees for the upcoming self-study as part of the 10-year accreditation process at FA. The task of the committee is to evaluate the facilities and technology of the...
View ArticleThing 14…Weebly
From the list of Tools I chose Weebly, which makes a “drag-and-drop” website. I’m still in the process of learning how to use it, and I’m also deciding which of the many formats might work best for my...
View ArticleThing 15…Delicious – an on-line filing system?
Delicious seems like a fancy sort of filing cabinet, where websites are documents and the tags are the names of the files. If I want some information on “Darwin” or “Easter Island” I go to my file...
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Thing 17…podcasting
I’ve used podcasts in the classroom and for my own personal enjoyment for a long time now. In fact, over the past 12 months or so, I’ve painted several rooms in my house, made countless dinners, and...
View ArticleThing 19…YouTubing
Skipping the podcast for a moment. YouTube has been part of my teaching for several years now…and I learned a long time ago to preview content on YouTube BEFORE sharing it with the class, or if it...
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