Those of you who may have read my first few posts (found here and here) about the school I worked in for the last 4 years, know that I worked in a school that was 100 years old and falling apart at the seams. Finally, the district moved forward with plans to build us a…
For those of you who may have had your Twitter streams overwhelmed with tweets like these, here is a little explanation of how it ‘goes down’ every Tuesday (also know as #teachertuesday on Twitter). Every Tuesday educators all over the world participate in online discussions that take the form of a fast-paced chat room on…
Cell Phones as Tools in the Classroom (?)I was directed to a blog post today by Larry Ferlazzo through a tweet: I was intrigued by the fact that Larry was not a supporter (as most of my Twitter PLN members are) of cell phone use in the classroom. So, I visited Scott McLeod’s post to…
In preparing for Leadership Day 2009 (a day of advocacy planned by Scott McLeod from Dangerously Irrelevant.org) I wanted to talk to students about what they thought about how technology was being used in their schools. For this I needed a digital voice recorder. I went to Best Buy only to find $60-$120 recorders that…
Alice is a free, open source software used to create animated ‘worlds.’ It provides the opportunity for teachers to expose students to using basic code and experience programming. This is my Alice world. I had to use Screencast-O-Matic to be able to upload it here, since the ‘export as movie’ option is not currently functional….
The Welcome Ceremony So, Day 2 is over and now I’m sitting in the “Blogger’s Cafe” trying to piece together the events of yesterday. I got into the Convention Center after having a wonderful brunch with a friend around 1:30pm. Just enough time to get seated for the Welcome Ceremony. The ceremony had a Movie…
Why I Don’t have a Twitter AccountJust to show how obsessive people get about Twitter, here is a blog with the top ten (no joke) Twitter songs–songs written specifically about Twitter.http://www.bspcn.com/2009/02/28/top-10-twitter-songs-of-all-time/ I currently have a Facebook account and a MySpace account AND a Friendster account. This shows the progression of social networking (SN) sites over…
Technology and Project-Based LearningAs I think about planning for my summer lessons and begin putting together some projects I find that I keep coming up with ideas that involve technology. I know that this is not a bad thing, but I’m realizing that anyone planning a project that integrates technology requires access to technology. Perhaps…
While visiting my family in New York, my mother asked me what I would do if I wasn’t teaching. (I may not be wording the question correctly, but it was to that effect.) All I could think was that teaching is what I know how to do and it’s what I do, and I really…
The new developments…So after getting my feathers in a bunch, it seems that we are getting a new school after all. However, it looks as though we may need to relocate first. This means we have to empty the entire school of everything we need and move to another building, only to pack it up…