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• Who Needs a Scoreboard?

  February 5, 2012 in Technology

  As meet manager for many swim meets, I know the importance of having instant results displayed on the scoreboard. But a new iPhone app is starting to make me think differently.  At the 2012 FVA Boys Swimming and Diving Meet, we turned on Meet Mobile – a fantastic new feature in Meet Manager 4.0. Let [...]

• iPad2 as Wireless Document Camera

  February 1, 2012 in Education, Technology

  After using the iPad2 and the Apple TV to mirror iPad content through my LCD projector, I realized that this setup can be used as a wireless document camera by using the built-in camera app on the iPad2. The Setup: First of all, I setup a ‘stand’ for the iPad, so that it could project [...]

• Chemistree 2011

  December 28, 2011 in Science

• Mirroring iPad2 with LCD Projector

  December 3, 2011 in Education, Technology

• Teaching with Television

  November 29, 2011 in Education, Technology

  A recent Phi Delta Kappan article caught my eye about using TV in the classroom: Teaching with television: New evidence supports an old medium, by Deborah L. Linebarger. In the article, Linebarger cites research affirming that TV can be used effectively in the classroom – especially where it supplements, rather than supplants, good instruction.  There are some [...]