Will Richardson made a recent post on kids becoming producers. He was reflecting on his daughter’s use of youtube and future video creations. My 13 year old daughter recently produced a youtube video clip and is now excited about future projects. Her 9 year old brother is soon to follow in her foot steps. Will writes… How cool is it going to be for her growing up with the ability to create and publish whatever floats her boat (as long…
Well it is a vacation week and I have been playing with the blog. I upgraded Word Press, and am toying with a new template, PressRow. I was able to do some modifications but am having trouble getting the archive and about pages to work, I just get copies of the blog page. I have followed the directions provided by the designer, but no luck. I like the ability to look at posts by categories, and month. I will play…
I am a Mac user, though I work in a PC district, and who knows the way things are going I may soon be playing with linux. But when you are fighting an up hill battle to maintain the status quo it is hard to move forward let alone change direction, but I digress I am a Mac user, and sometimes I bring my Mac to work to use some of the productivity programs I have installed. A colleague asked…
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.
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.
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…