Apologies
I must apologize if you had any trouble accessing the blog. The Web hosting service I use had MySQL database server issues over the weekend. Seems to be resolved now…. just one more reason I should be looking for a new hosting service.
ePals
There are times I wish I was still a classroom teacher. I had a chance to look around ePals and would love to use it. I used to teach overseas and I think this is a great resource to connect kids in different cultures together.
Looking for Ideas
I am currently putting together 2 courses for teachers in our district. One of the courses is called Differentiating Instruction with Technology. The purpose of this course is to help teachers focus on the needs of our ELL, Special Ed and Title 1 students, and to use the resources currently available to them to develop learning activities and resources that support these kids. Essentially we will look at what these kids need; clear expectations and objectives, opportunities for repetition, and…
Blogging Experience – Wrap Up
Well we are coming into the home stretch of the blogging experience. I believe overall it has been a success. We started with 27 participants two officially drop out after we began. Thirteen people participated fully and blogged about their education specialty, the rest practiced the mechanics of blogging and commenting but without real educational substance. The goal was to expose people to blogging. Within our district there is now a larger group of people who can help make more…
A Little House Keeping
I am not sure what to call it, housekeeping, digital clean up, or web maintenance. But whatever it is, it has taken up quite a bit of time and I am not yet done. In my role as K12 Technology Integration Specialist, I feel it is part of my responsibility to experiment with many of the web tools that are available for teachers. I believe I need to play with the tools to know what will be useful in different…
The Survey Results Are In
Scott Mcleod at Dangerously Irrelevant has posted the results of his survey on educational blogging. The results are quite interesting and whether you are a new blogger or have been doing it a while I am sure you will see a bit of yourself in the results.
New Blooms
Will Richardson‘s comment on the new look of Bloom’s Taxonomy and SEGA Tech‘s post on the periodic table of visualization methods could not have come at a better time. I am in the midst of planning a new course to help teachers focus on the needs of our ELL students. More precisely how they can use the resources and tools already at their disposal to provide learning supports for these students. These resources include materials (CDs, DVDs, Websites) provided by…