This past week I was honored to do a guest blog post on Richard Byrne‘s blog Free Technology For Teachers. You can read my post about creating and managing student Diigo accounts through a Teacher Account here. If you don’t already subscribe to Richard’s blog, you should. He provides a plethora of useful links and…
Today started with our new prep schedule on the counter and a note about us teaching our scripted reading program TWICE a day now, with a 30 minute period added at the end of the day. Yay! More robot teaching! In addition, I have students who, due to snow storms, coverage, holidays, etc.. haven’t completed…
If you read my earlier post about Race to the Top, you know that I have been dreading the news that my school will be labeled as a Renaissance School. Well, my biggest fear has been realized. In our boxes today was parent letter explaining that my school is on the list of eligible schools…
I don’t usually do this kind of thing, but I received an email from a community outreach spokesperson from Meeting Tomorrow, a company that sells audio/visual equipment, telling me about a contest they are doing. Meeting Tomorrow will be giving away 10 LCD projectors to 10 schools based on votes. You can nominate and vote…
I am in the process of pulling together my applications materials for ISTE’s Outstanding Young Educator Award. This is the video I put together to address this question: “What role do you believe technology plays in making a positive difference in teaching and learning?” Thanks for your feedback everyone, I changed the video based on…
I am SO honored and thrilled to have been nominated for an Edublog Award. When I first started this blog almost exactly a year ago, I really had no idea where it would go and I had no plan, really. After reading more blogs and building my PLN, my blog has grown as I have…
Tomorrow I am attending my first ever BarCamp. I signed up for it without really understanding exactly what I was getting myself into, but I recognized a Twitter colleague, Ann Leaness, on the ‘attending’ list, so I signed up. It turns out I might be in for a treat! So what is a ‘BarCamp?’ I…
As mentioned in my earlier post, we all received brand new 16G iPod Touches today at my TTL (Technology Teacher Leader) meeting. Right at the beginning of the meeting we were given a form to fill out and we approached the table where our regional Instructional Technology Specialists were sitting and traded the form for…
This post was originally posted on Shelly Terrell‘s blog, Teacher Reboot Camp. When Shelly honored me with the opportunity to write a guest post about teaching at-risk youth in the USA, it took me a while to gather my thoughts. What could I share with the world that hasn’t already been on National television or…
About a week and a half ago, I sent a twtpoll (Twitter poll) around my Twitter network asking educators on Twitter how they would describe their school. To be honest, it was a spur-of-the-moment kind of thing. What spurred the poll were the last few weeks’ #edchats on Twitter. (For an explanation of what #edchat…