So I keep a small cache of donated laptops in my room for students to type projects on. Most of my kids are pretty computer literate, though I do throw curve balls at them with my locked-down Mac OS settings and software like OpenOffice in lieu of MS Word (free is cheap!). But there’s a… Read more »
“Favicon” is a ridiculous bundle word: short for “favorites icon.” And for the longest time, the one for this site has been a silly default WordPress shield or somesuch. So today, a new one: That is all.
Day 11 is another running map; route goes by the Czech Embassy and the Indonesian Embassy Residence: goo.gl/maps/DofH View Embassies in the Park in a larger map (I totally tweeted this last night, so it was on time.)
With apologies to Indexed:
So I love maps and I love running, but only just got around to mapping the familiar run that is my default loop when I just want to stretch the legs and know exactly every inch of pavement along the way. I may very well return to this map for future days, as there’s a… Read more »
So tomorrow (which is just a few minutes away) is someone’s birthday, and my sister suggested this as a continuation of the a previous rainbow cake experiment from a few years ago on my birthday. The “this” being rainbow cakes in jars: Here’s how my baking partner (not the birthday girl) and I got there:… Read more »
Hi, I'm Andrew Plemmons Pratt. I currently teach 7th-grade English / Reading / Language Arts at a turnaround school in Prince George’s County, Maryland. This year, my classroom is piloting a 1:1 iPad program designed to accelerate middle-school literary. I write about education technology here at appratt.com and at the EdTech 101 blog on . I'm a 2010 Teach For America corps member, and before that I was the managing editor at , the science and tech policy magazine at the Center for American Progress, a Washington, DC-based think tank.