Harold Being Harold

Month: September 2010

  • THE WEEK IN REVIEW SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

    Image via Wikipedia I haven’t been posting or participating too much in online conversations this week, but by the time I get home, I was totally wiped and still had 2-3 hours of work to do each night (just the start of the school year). I took email off my iPhone and you know something…

  • 25 GOOGLE CHROME EXTENSIONS I USE

    Image via Wikipedia In last night’s post I discussed the change to Google Chrome and discussed that I would be discussing what extensions I am using now.  The thing that I like about many of Chrome’s extensions is that they run in the background and get rid of annoying little things like YouTube starting automatically…

  • THE CHANGE TO GOOGLE CHROME

    Image via Wikipedia Time for this Special Education Teacher to come out of hiding again and talk about a tech solution he has been using with good results. I have used PCs & Macs and all the major web browsers and even some of the less popular ones, in hopes I would find one that…

  • SPECIAL EDUCATORS-DO WE DO TOO MUCH?

    Image via Wikipedia How many hats or duties, do Special Educators wear or have during the course of school year, week or day? Personally I think we have too many to do our main responsibilities particularly well. At least not without putting in a ridiculous number of hours beyond what is normally expected of most teachers.…

  • GETTING RID OF EMAIL ON THE iPHONE

    Image via Wikipedia I have decided to delete email connectivity from my iPhone.  I know that many people out there love being able to keep up with their email from their mobile phone and I thought that I did also. Over the course of the summer it was great to be able to check my…

  • GOOGLE-APPLE SYNCHING – SOLUTION FOUND

    Image via CrunchBase I have had my iPhone 3G since May.  I really love it and to say it has become an extension of many things that I do is an understatement. However, I am finding that the iPhone and other Apple products do not natively or sometimes easily interact with Google Docs, Contacts or…

  • PAPER AIRPLANE LESSON PLAN 2010

    This is one of my favorite all time lesson plans, I have updated it for this year’s class and plan to use it on Tuesday.  I was also wondering if anyone had any constructive criticisms or suggestions that I can use to make it even better. Also if you see that it fits under any…

  • THE WEEK IN REVIEW – SEPTEMBER 4, 2010

    Image via Wikipedia This was quite a week, with arrival of Hurricane Earl, the heat wave we have been in is officially over.  We survived.  In my area in Maine we set, equaled or came close to a record temperature every day this week, along with the high humidity made the classrooms unbearable.  I really…

  • SURVIVING THE HEAT

    Image by Raymond Larose via Flickr Although it is not an official heat wave, the last three days at school have been hotter than hell. I live in Maine and the weather this time of year is supposed to be 70-80s which is considered pretty moderate and comfortable, instead we have broken, tied or come…