Bending the super’s ear about tech PD
I’m pretty lucky to be working in the school district I currently work in. Fiscally, it’s a pretty conservative district, but when the financial crisis hit and so many educators lost their job, our district was left relatively unscathed. One area that the district has been willing to spend some money is in the area [...]
A conversation with “non-techies”
I just finished having a conversation with two of my school’s fantastic math teachers, self-proclaimed “non-techies,” about the direction of professional development, more specifically technology-related professional development over the past few years. They made me realize something very important that I had failed to realize…I’ve never supported them.
Sure, we have had plenty of technology-related [...]
StudentCon 2010
If I learned anything this past weekend from my virtual attendance of Educon, I learned that teachers need to occasionally take a back seat to their students and learn from them. Students have so much to offer and we, as educators, forget that we are not always the experts in the room nor do we [...]
Top 10 Video Podcasts for Education
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Earlier this year, I decided I wanted to create a way for the teachers to have easy access to video resources to use in their classrooms. At the time, I wasn’t exactly sure how I wanted to accomplish this, but when the Director of Technology for my school district gave me [...]
Indispensable ICT Tools for Teachers
This blog is all about the resources and tools that can be used to enhance the classroom experience for teachers and students alike. When I come across a resource like this wiki, I have to share.
Indispensable ICT Tools for Teachers is a fantastic collection of over 200 web tools specifically geared toward teachers and their [...]
