Fortunately, I made it back from Hershey before the big storm! As always we should wait and see how much snow we really get. A two hour delay would be nice.
I have a ton of resources to share that I have gathered from this week's PETE & C Conference. I will try to do this over the next few weeks.
PETE & C Resources
You can access many of the workshop sessions notes, wikis, blogs, and resources by just going to the PETE & C Ning. There are tons of resources on a multitude of topics. Some presenters included they handouts and notes and some did not.
Sir Ken Robinson-Do Schools Destroy Creativity?
This video explains Sir Ken's view of what we need to do in education to allow our kids to be successful in the new economy. He was the keynote at the Pete & C conference this week and the author of The Element.
Tuesdays with Roger Workshops
The first two after school workshops have been scheduled.
Tuesday March 9- Moodle
Tuesday March 23-ActivInspire
Please let me know if you are coming. There will be 1hour of Act 48 available for each session.
Site of the Week
I got this one from Pete and C this week.
Math 2.0, Henry uses his blog to share how he takes his math classes into the 21st century using wikis, blogs, interactives and other Web 2.0 tools.
Thought of the Week
"Be the change you want to see in the world."-Gandhi
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Weekly Byte PETE & C 2010
I have been here for three days now and have learned a ton. The best thing is to get to talk with other people who are trying to do the same things in their districts. It is interesting but scary at the same time. So many of us know that we need to make major changes in education or our students will be unemployed in the new economy. Even though there are 2500+ people here how many are going to actually try and make changes in their districts? Sorry to get a little serious.
Anyways I just figured out how to share articles/blog posts from Google Reader in my blog. I know, I know, what is Google Reader? I will be sharing Google Reader in April at my Google Workshop so come and check it out.
But for now see "Roger's Shared Items" on the left of this page.
I will posting again soon to share some of my learnings.
My next session is starting! shhhh
Anyways I just figured out how to share articles/blog posts from Google Reader in my blog. I know, I know, what is Google Reader? I will be sharing Google Reader in April at my Google Workshop so come and check it out.
But for now see "Roger's Shared Items" on the left of this page.
I will posting again soon to share some of my learnings.
My next session is starting! shhhh
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Weekly Byte 2.17.10
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!
I don't know about you but I have had about enough. I wonder if we are allowed to go to school til July? Anyways, this is giving me some time to get some wonderful work done.
Upcoming Events
Starting in March I will be offering 1 hour technology workshops after school.
All sessions will start at 2:30 and end at 3:30.
All sessions will provide Act 48 credit.
All sessions will be held in Room 213.
Time will be allotted to work with the new tools.
1.Moodle, designing and implementing a Moodle course effectively in the classroom. (Tuesday March 9th)
2.ActivInspire, how to use your promethean board to engage students and simplify your life. (Tuesday March 23rd)
3.Photostory, bring video and audio into the classroom and improve student projects with this easy to use tool. (Date TBA)
4.Google, how to use Google Tools in the classroom, Google Docs for collaboration and Google News to bring resources to you, will be the focus. (Date TBA)
5.Taking your classroom global, online tools to expand the boundaries of your classroom. (Date TBA)
6.Next Level Tech, advanced tools, using Twitter to bring information to your finger tips, advanced Google Searches, Web 2.0 tools will be shared (Date TBA)
Please let me know the week before if you will be attending.
I will send reminder emails one week prior to each session.
Twitter Resources
I have expressed in prior posts how valuable Twitter has been to my own personal professional development. Here is one of my favorite Twitters to follow.
Free Tech 4 Teachers, this teacher provides tons of valuable resources for using technology in the classroom. Take a look at his blog and follow him on Twitter.
Web Tools for Enhancing Collaboration
Here are a few tools that will help improve student collaboration in your classroom.
Dabbleboard, is a whiteboard that allows you to visualize, explore, and collaborate. Just draw as you would on a whiteboard and you can easily share your ideas.
Wallwisher, is an online notice board maker. Use this tool to make announcements and keep notes. You can use links, pictures, music, video and pages. You don't have to register.
Reminder
If you are interested in participating in the eAcademy Planning Team our next meeting will be Thursday, February 18th at 2:40 in room 213.
Thanks and happy shoveling!
I don't know about you but I have had about enough. I wonder if we are allowed to go to school til July? Anyways, this is giving me some time to get some wonderful work done.
Upcoming Events
Starting in March I will be offering 1 hour technology workshops after school.
All sessions will start at 2:30 and end at 3:30.
All sessions will provide Act 48 credit.
All sessions will be held in Room 213.
Time will be allotted to work with the new tools.
1.Moodle, designing and implementing a Moodle course effectively in the classroom. (Tuesday March 9th)
2.ActivInspire, how to use your promethean board to engage students and simplify your life. (Tuesday March 23rd)
3.Photostory, bring video and audio into the classroom and improve student projects with this easy to use tool. (Date TBA)
4.Google, how to use Google Tools in the classroom, Google Docs for collaboration and Google News to bring resources to you, will be the focus. (Date TBA)
5.Taking your classroom global, online tools to expand the boundaries of your classroom. (Date TBA)
6.Next Level Tech, advanced tools, using Twitter to bring information to your finger tips, advanced Google Searches, Web 2.0 tools will be shared (Date TBA)
Please let me know the week before if you will be attending.
I will send reminder emails one week prior to each session.
Twitter Resources
I have expressed in prior posts how valuable Twitter has been to my own personal professional development. Here is one of my favorite Twitters to follow.
Free Tech 4 Teachers, this teacher provides tons of valuable resources for using technology in the classroom. Take a look at his blog and follow him on Twitter.
Web Tools for Enhancing Collaboration
Here are a few tools that will help improve student collaboration in your classroom.
Dabbleboard, is a whiteboard that allows you to visualize, explore, and collaborate. Just draw as you would on a whiteboard and you can easily share your ideas.
Wallwisher, is an online notice board maker. Use this tool to make announcements and keep notes. You can use links, pictures, music, video and pages. You don't have to register.
Reminder
If you are interested in participating in the eAcademy Planning Team our next meeting will be Thursday, February 18th at 2:40 in room 213.
Thanks and happy shoveling!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Weekly Byte 2.7.10
Snow, snow, snow. I am sure that your weekends were spent shoveling, like mine was. The school cancellations will give you some time to catch up on school work and maybe check out this blog for some new resources or ideas, lol.
Great article about an Israeli Entrepreneur who has started a school with $60 million. Sounds like the ideal school to me. How can we get this replicated to US schools?
I have to comment about the value of Twitter. I just became a Twitter-user this year. What a difference it makes for my learning. I have learned more in 6 months of following tweets than I have in years! I follow a few educational technology bloggers and they provide me with tons of information. I highly recommend Twitter to any and all educators. You can follow people who tweet about any topic. If you are looking for Social Studies, Science, Math, English or anything in between it is a fantastic resource.
Here is a good starting point. Once you set up a Twitter account you can go to Twitter for Teachers to find people in your content area to follow.
Moodle training coming in early March. I have been given permission to offer Act 48 credit for the one hour session. Stay tuned for dates and times.
Great article about an Israeli Entrepreneur who has started a school with $60 million. Sounds like the ideal school to me. How can we get this replicated to US schools?
I have to comment about the value of Twitter. I just became a Twitter-user this year. What a difference it makes for my learning. I have learned more in 6 months of following tweets than I have in years! I follow a few educational technology bloggers and they provide me with tons of information. I highly recommend Twitter to any and all educators. You can follow people who tweet about any topic. If you are looking for Social Studies, Science, Math, English or anything in between it is a fantastic resource.
Here is a good starting point. Once you set up a Twitter account you can go to Twitter for Teachers to find people in your content area to follow.
Moodle training coming in early March. I have been given permission to offer Act 48 credit for the one hour session. Stay tuned for dates and times.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Weekly Byte 2.1.10
Another great week in the world of technology!
I had the opportunity to attend Google Training on Jaunary 28-29. What a great experience. Every teacher should attend this training. We learned about efficient searches, google docs, maps, sites, calendar, reader and some advanced items. Many of these will benefit teachers and students in and out of the classroom. I will be sharing what I have learned with everyone in the near future at a workshop. For now you can log into the Franklin Regional Moodle site and find the link to my resource page, FR Technorati. There is a whole section on Google Tools. This is a work in progress and I will continue to update this section.
Websites of the Week
thinklinkr
Does anyone have their students do outlines? Well here is a simple, online, free, collaborative option for your students that they would love. Students can register and then create their outlines using this tool. They can also collaborate with others on their outlines.
Profile Publisher
Ever use the Facebook mock up to have your students make a fake Facebook profile for a character in history or in a book? In case you didn't know it is illegal to use the Facebook layout in this manner. Profile Publisher has swooped in and saved the day! This tool works in the same fashion and does the same thing but without breaking any laws.
Here are some interesting questions from the Educon Conference.
1. What does an educated person look like today?
2. What is the purpose of school?
There were many more at this link but I would like to hear what some of your answers to these questions. Please reply to this post with your answers.
I had the opportunity to attend Google Training on Jaunary 28-29. What a great experience. Every teacher should attend this training. We learned about efficient searches, google docs, maps, sites, calendar, reader and some advanced items. Many of these will benefit teachers and students in and out of the classroom. I will be sharing what I have learned with everyone in the near future at a workshop. For now you can log into the Franklin Regional Moodle site and find the link to my resource page, FR Technorati. There is a whole section on Google Tools. This is a work in progress and I will continue to update this section.
Websites of the Week
thinklinkr
Does anyone have their students do outlines? Well here is a simple, online, free, collaborative option for your students that they would love. Students can register and then create their outlines using this tool. They can also collaborate with others on their outlines.
Profile Publisher
Ever use the Facebook mock up to have your students make a fake Facebook profile for a character in history or in a book? In case you didn't know it is illegal to use the Facebook layout in this manner. Profile Publisher has swooped in and saved the day! This tool works in the same fashion and does the same thing but without breaking any laws.
Here are some interesting questions from the Educon Conference.
1. What does an educated person look like today?
2. What is the purpose of school?
There were many more at this link but I would like to hear what some of your answers to these questions. Please reply to this post with your answers.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Weekly Byte 1.23.10
I am working diligently to make this truly a weekly byte. There has been some commentary on the fact that it is not always weekly so bear with me Mike and Melissa!
Technology is rolling along here at FR and in Westmoreland County. Last week we had the Science Technology collboration day at Derry Senior High School. Mark, Dottie and Teresa participated and found it to be helpful to see what others are doing in their content area in the county. Many valuable science tools and best practices were shared. Here are two links to wikis from the workshop: http://derryareahighschoolcff.wikispaces.com
http://derryarea.wikispaces.com/
Please feel free to access and use these tools.
The next content area Tech Day will take place at Burrell Senior High School on February 12th. This day will give Social Studies teachers the opportunity to share technology tools and best practices. Please email me if you would be interested in attending.
Teacher Highlights
The Ninth Grade Academy Tech Unit is in full swing! We have been working together on Moodle and Glogster in the Success 101 classes. So far things have been going well. There is now a NGA Moodle page with video tutorials on how to use these tools. Students and teachers have enjoyed the unit and are learning alot. Next week we will be using Google Docs and comic creation tools!
Teacher Highlights 2
This is really cool! Mr Earl and two senior students participated in a video conference call using Skype! The students and Mr. Earl spoke with an admissions person from the University of Georgia through Skype. Georgia performs these "interviews" online to make it easier for them to meet with prospective students.
Website of the Week
Dabbleboard.com
Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. This tool would be useful to allow students and teachers to collaborate in a free online environment. It works just like a promethean board but without the cost of the hardware. Students could work in groups to plan projects. Very cool!
Technology is rolling along here at FR and in Westmoreland County. Last week we had the Science Technology collboration day at Derry Senior High School. Mark, Dottie and Teresa participated and found it to be helpful to see what others are doing in their content area in the county. Many valuable science tools and best practices were shared. Here are two links to wikis from the workshop: http://derryareahighschoolcff.wikispaces.com
http://derryarea.wikispaces.com/
Please feel free to access and use these tools.
The next content area Tech Day will take place at Burrell Senior High School on February 12th. This day will give Social Studies teachers the opportunity to share technology tools and best practices. Please email me if you would be interested in attending.
Teacher Highlights
The Ninth Grade Academy Tech Unit is in full swing! We have been working together on Moodle and Glogster in the Success 101 classes. So far things have been going well. There is now a NGA Moodle page with video tutorials on how to use these tools. Students and teachers have enjoyed the unit and are learning alot. Next week we will be using Google Docs and comic creation tools!
Teacher Highlights 2
This is really cool! Mr Earl and two senior students participated in a video conference call using Skype! The students and Mr. Earl spoke with an admissions person from the University of Georgia through Skype. Georgia performs these "interviews" online to make it easier for them to meet with prospective students.
Website of the Week
Dabbleboard.com
Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. This tool would be useful to allow students and teachers to collaborate in a free online environment. It works just like a promethean board but without the cost of the hardware. Students could work in groups to plan projects. Very cool!
Friday, January 15, 2010
Weekly Byte 1.15.10
Good day!
Many people make New Year's resolutions at this time of year, lose weight, stop drinking pop, cutting out sweets, whatever. Last year at this time I shared some of these technology resolutions with you. I thought this would be a good time to offer some things to think about as it pertains to resolutions in your classroom.
Technology Resolutions
1. Take a look at your class from the students' perspective--ask yourself just how engaging are they really finding it?
2. Recognize that technology tools change on a daily basis. Make an effort to find the tools that work for you.
3. You don't have to remake yourself as a teacher, but you do need to consider how incorporating some new tools and resources could make your classes better for the students. Show them that you're willing to make a move in their direction by adding a new dimension to one of your lessons.
4. Find someone you trust who has a tech tool they like and sit in on their class to see how they use it.
5. Start small. Think of one task or one assignment that could easily be given a 21st century makeover. Get help to find a tool that will work and that you can manage.
6. Suck it up and try it out--make the necessary arrangements and find a tech-savvy person who will co-teach the lesson if you can.
7. You are right to assume that things will go wrong--have a back-up plan ready--you may need it. Know that you have been teaching long enough to handle a quick change-up if you need to.
8. Trust the kids--they'll help you with the technology--that's what they're good at.
Know that I am here to help you!
Ed Tech Article of the Week
This is an interesting article on the impact of whiteboards on education.
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02whiteboards.h03.html?print=1
Many people make New Year's resolutions at this time of year, lose weight, stop drinking pop, cutting out sweets, whatever. Last year at this time I shared some of these technology resolutions with you. I thought this would be a good time to offer some things to think about as it pertains to resolutions in your classroom.
Technology Resolutions
1. Take a look at your class from the students' perspective--ask yourself just how engaging are they really finding it?
2. Recognize that technology tools change on a daily basis. Make an effort to find the tools that work for you.
3. You don't have to remake yourself as a teacher, but you do need to consider how incorporating some new tools and resources could make your classes better for the students. Show them that you're willing to make a move in their direction by adding a new dimension to one of your lessons.
4. Find someone you trust who has a tech tool they like and sit in on their class to see how they use it.
5. Start small. Think of one task or one assignment that could easily be given a 21st century makeover. Get help to find a tool that will work and that you can manage.
6. Suck it up and try it out--make the necessary arrangements and find a tech-savvy person who will co-teach the lesson if you can.
7. You are right to assume that things will go wrong--have a back-up plan ready--you may need it. Know that you have been teaching long enough to handle a quick change-up if you need to.
8. Trust the kids--they'll help you with the technology--that's what they're good at.
Know that I am here to help you!
Ed Tech Article of the Week
This is an interesting article on the impact of whiteboards on education.
http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2010/01/08/02whiteboards.h03.html?print=1
Saturday, January 9, 2010
Weekly Byte 1.10.10
Happy New Year!
Welcome back to school. We had an interesting first week with all the snow. Its always a good day when you get that 2hr delay. That rhymes! Anyways we have alot going on and a lot of technology coming up.
I will be working next week with the NGA on a technology unit. It kicks off Wednesday with a speaker on Technology Ethics! We will then be working with the 9th graders on Moodle and Google Docs! Good stuff.
I have also been approved to offer six technology sessions after school for Act 48 credits. Sessions on Using Moodle effectively, ActivInspire, Photostory, Google Docs, and advanced technologies will be offered. Watch your email for more info.
Teacher Highlight
I have been working with Melissa, Lisa and Samantha using Google Docs in the Social Studies Department. We had some issues with Google Docs so it was not a complete success but we learned alot about the product and will use this information to better use Google Docs in the future. Thank you ladies for having me in your classrooms!
In case you are wondering what Google Docs is:Tour of Google Docs
Website of the Week
Brightstorm
This is a math resource that provides free online math tutorials that show how to solve different types of math problems in Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Calculus. The tutorials are free but the SAT and ACT prep sections are a fee based service. This would be a good tool for remediation/enrichment on a variety of math concepts.
Advanced Technology Tool of the Week
Cacoo
Cacoo is a feature-rich collaborative diagram creation resource. Like similar diagram creation tools, Cacoo allows you to draw shapes, type, and drag and drop elements of your diagram. One of the unique aspects of Cacoo is that you can also upload images to include in your diagrams. The collaborative aspect of Cacoo is that you can invite other people to contribute to your diagrams. Cacoo allows you to chat with your collaborators in real-time while you work on your diagrams.
As always please contact me if you are interested in using any technologies in your classroom and we can discuss how I can help you.
thanks
Welcome back to school. We had an interesting first week with all the snow. Its always a good day when you get that 2hr delay. That rhymes! Anyways we have alot going on and a lot of technology coming up.
I will be working next week with the NGA on a technology unit. It kicks off Wednesday with a speaker on Technology Ethics! We will then be working with the 9th graders on Moodle and Google Docs! Good stuff.
I have also been approved to offer six technology sessions after school for Act 48 credits. Sessions on Using Moodle effectively, ActivInspire, Photostory, Google Docs, and advanced technologies will be offered. Watch your email for more info.
Teacher Highlight
I have been working with Melissa, Lisa and Samantha using Google Docs in the Social Studies Department. We had some issues with Google Docs so it was not a complete success but we learned alot about the product and will use this information to better use Google Docs in the future. Thank you ladies for having me in your classrooms!
In case you are wondering what Google Docs is:Tour of Google Docs
Website of the Week
Brightstorm
This is a math resource that provides free online math tutorials that show how to solve different types of math problems in Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry and Calculus. The tutorials are free but the SAT and ACT prep sections are a fee based service. This would be a good tool for remediation/enrichment on a variety of math concepts.
Advanced Technology Tool of the Week
Cacoo
Cacoo is a feature-rich collaborative diagram creation resource. Like similar diagram creation tools, Cacoo allows you to draw shapes, type, and drag and drop elements of your diagram. One of the unique aspects of Cacoo is that you can also upload images to include in your diagrams. The collaborative aspect of Cacoo is that you can invite other people to contribute to your diagrams. Cacoo allows you to chat with your collaborators in real-time while you work on your diagrams.
As always please contact me if you are interested in using any technologies in your classroom and we can discuss how I can help you.
thanks
Friday, November 13, 2009
Weekly Byte 11.13.09
Another busy week in technology!
On Thursday Frank Muto, Kristin Giron and I attended the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference (www.tretc.org)in Cranberry. Keynote speaker Hall Davidson delivered an engaging opening session with a focus on moving from hard copy books to digital copies and the impact of using video to better engage today's learner. Excellent!
If you want to see or learn about some of the resources we gathered from this conference send me an email and I will get it to you.
Teacher Highlights
This week I had the pleasure of working with Mrs. Leopold's English class using Pixton to create comic strips for the Odyssey. Cool stuff! Her students will be using Pixton on Monday and Tuesday periods 3 and 4, stop by and check it out!
Website of the Week
www.prezi.com, an amazing presentation tool! Check this out! It will make you rethink using PowerPoint in your classrooms.
Blackberry Tip of the Week
Download the Audible.com player to your Blackberry and you can then listen to audiobooks! Many free audiobooks and many that you have to pay for. I downloaded Hot, Flat and Crowded, the latest book from Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat. I also downloaded Tribe, interesting book about the power of groups of people.
On Thursday Frank Muto, Kristin Giron and I attended the Three Rivers Educational Technology Conference (www.tretc.org)in Cranberry. Keynote speaker Hall Davidson delivered an engaging opening session with a focus on moving from hard copy books to digital copies and the impact of using video to better engage today's learner. Excellent!
If you want to see or learn about some of the resources we gathered from this conference send me an email and I will get it to you.
Teacher Highlights
This week I had the pleasure of working with Mrs. Leopold's English class using Pixton to create comic strips for the Odyssey. Cool stuff! Her students will be using Pixton on Monday and Tuesday periods 3 and 4, stop by and check it out!
Website of the Week
www.prezi.com, an amazing presentation tool! Check this out! It will make you rethink using PowerPoint in your classrooms.
Blackberry Tip of the Week
Download the Audible.com player to your Blackberry and you can then listen to audiobooks! Many free audiobooks and many that you have to pay for. I downloaded Hot, Flat and Crowded, the latest book from Thomas Friedman, author of The World is Flat. I also downloaded Tribe, interesting book about the power of groups of people.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Weekly Byte 11.05.09
Good day!
Sorry for the Weekly Byte becoming the Monthly Byte, busy few weeks. But that is good. Obvisouly my services are becoming more important! Well what have I been doing the last few weeks? I have been working with the Learning Support Department on using Google Calendar to manage their students classroom and home work. We have had some glitches but we are in the process of working that out.
The World Language Department, in particular Val and Jeff graciously invited me to their classrooms to share Glogster with their students. I had the chance to see some of Val's students present yesterday. Muy Bien!
Ms Giron and I spent the last two days entertaining administrators and board members in her classroom. They were invited to observe what Kristin's students have been doing with Literature Circles. Truly Awesome stuff! If you get a chance check out her class. Here is her Ning (frenglish12.ning.com)
I have also be working with Ms. Metzgar on planning a Heroes of Murrysville Project for her Mythology Unit.
I have been planning a few training opportunities for the FR faculty.
- Professional Development November 6th 7:30-10:30 and 11:30-2:30
- Thinkfinity Training/Senior High November 16th, 2:30-3:30
- Thinkfinity Training/Middle School December 4th, 7:00-8:00
- Math Technology Colaboration Day/@Latrobe November 23rd, 9:00-2:00
- English Technology Collaboration Day/@Valley December 16th, 9:00-2:00
- 21st Century Teaching and Learning Institute/@Hershey December 7-10 (BWesterlund, CRoland, TBurns and my self)
Site of the Week
http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com/
This wiki offers evaluation of numerous Web 2.0 tools. So if you hear about a tool or read about one somewhere come here and check out their evaluation of the tool before you use it. They give strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This will help protect you and your students.
http://todaysmeet.com
Create a short term chat room for use in class. This tool is easy to use and will allow you to create a chat room in minutes. Great tool for in class discussions. Engage all of your students with this tool.
As always if you have any educational technology needs please don't hesitate to ask.
thanks and have a great weekend!
Sorry for the Weekly Byte becoming the Monthly Byte, busy few weeks. But that is good. Obvisouly my services are becoming more important! Well what have I been doing the last few weeks? I have been working with the Learning Support Department on using Google Calendar to manage their students classroom and home work. We have had some glitches but we are in the process of working that out.
The World Language Department, in particular Val and Jeff graciously invited me to their classrooms to share Glogster with their students. I had the chance to see some of Val's students present yesterday. Muy Bien!
Ms Giron and I spent the last two days entertaining administrators and board members in her classroom. They were invited to observe what Kristin's students have been doing with Literature Circles. Truly Awesome stuff! If you get a chance check out her class. Here is her Ning (frenglish12.ning.com)
I have also be working with Ms. Metzgar on planning a Heroes of Murrysville Project for her Mythology Unit.
I have been planning a few training opportunities for the FR faculty.
- Professional Development November 6th 7:30-10:30 and 11:30-2:30
- Thinkfinity Training/Senior High November 16th, 2:30-3:30
- Thinkfinity Training/Middle School December 4th, 7:00-8:00
- Math Technology Colaboration Day/@Latrobe November 23rd, 9:00-2:00
- English Technology Collaboration Day/@Valley December 16th, 9:00-2:00
- 21st Century Teaching and Learning Institute/@Hershey December 7-10 (BWesterlund, CRoland, TBurns and my self)
Site of the Week
http://teachweb2.wikispaces.com/
This wiki offers evaluation of numerous Web 2.0 tools. So if you hear about a tool or read about one somewhere come here and check out their evaluation of the tool before you use it. They give strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This will help protect you and your students.
http://todaysmeet.com
Create a short term chat room for use in class. This tool is easy to use and will allow you to create a chat room in minutes. Great tool for in class discussions. Engage all of your students with this tool.
As always if you have any educational technology needs please don't hesitate to ask.
thanks and have a great weekend!
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