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…
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…
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…
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.