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Ed Tech: Tools to Manage the Classroom

May 5, 2005 By jbb Leave a Comment

Video script: Tools to Manage the Classroom I’m not sure where I want to write this. I’m working on some text for my resume video and need to create a narrative. I’m not fond of working without a net… Education & Technology: Tools to Manage the Classroom When I came into the classroom in 1995, [...]

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Pepperdine OMAET Blog Summary – Manning The Gap

December 19, 2004 By jbb Leave a Comment

I use technology, I have for over twenty-years. But I’m not so caught up with these little beasties to lose sight that they are essentially tools. As such, a careful balance needs to be made so that we don’t forget why or what role technology will have in the lives of our students. Many of [...]

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When It’s More Important to Have Shiny Tools Than To Use Them

October 30, 2004 By jbb Leave a Comment

At this past district tech meeting (10/12) the director told a story about a neighboring district’s network going down for two-weeks, referring to it as a “career ending” situation that our district will never have to face because of the steps our IT manager has taken to prevent that sort of thing from happening to [...]

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Invention Requires Not Knowing Any Better

October 16, 2004 By jbb Leave a Comment

Whenever I heard or read the innovators of the PC revolution talk about what it was like in the “old days,” when they were starting out, to a person they always begin by saying that they had no idea what they were doing when they started out. Or more to the point, they didn’t know [...]

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Bible Geek

May 12, 2004 By jbb Leave a Comment

So last week I finally decided that I needed to take another step and order this Bible software that would run on my Mac (my main system). I’d known about the software for some time, but it was a bit pricey and I’d already bought a pretty good package for my PC(s) way back last [...]

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