This OS X command line tool is very handy. Every time I need it though I have to google it to remember what it’s called. So, I’m making a blog post to remind myself. Hopefully it will be useful to others who happen across this post.> sips -Z 200 *.jpgThe -Z tells to utility to…
Nice report on determining educational usefulness of Apps
http://qz.com/399360/four-ways-to-tell-if-an-educational-app-will-actually-help-your-child-learn/
The ‘Factory Model’ of Education
This is a great article. It offers some (much needed) historical context to the claims often made by school reform advocates that our education system is structurally analogous to the factory system as it existed over one hundred years ago. These same reform advocates often valorize educational technology as a means of radically changing our…
Student Evaluation Cards
A Sample Card Our teachers have a system of passing on information about students when they move up a grade. They use 5 x 8 cards with four sections (Social, Academic, Parents, Developmental) where they can enter notes and draw a circle with four quadrants filled with red, green, or yellow to indicate how a…
Setting up WordPress Multisite for a Student Project
I was asked by our tech teacher to set up WordPress sites for our 8th Graders to use for a final project. WordPress has a special mode called multisite that makes this fairly simple. With multisite you essentially have a single installation of WordPress but you can create multiple blogs within that single install each…
A bash script for creating student Open Directory accounts
our sad old OD server I recently took over the IT Director job at a school that had been without a full-time IT person for almost a year. One of the awesome gifts from the previous IT person was a ten year old iMac with 1GB of RAM acting as the Open Directory server for…